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50 Random Facts To Entertain Your Brain Cells, As Shared By “Quite Interesting” Twitter Account
There are nearly 8 billion people on this planet, and everybody constantly wants to know things. Whether you're into astronomy and the whole chicken or egg thing, or you're simply a curious person – all the answers that humankind can give you would probably be not enough, and it's absolutely understandable. We're floating God-knows-where around a bunch of fairly similar and large astronomical bodies while having to get up and go to work every single day – how could you not wonder about things?
However, sometimes looking for answers can do no good. An existential crisis can seriously mess up your whole nervous system, which is we have multiple options that can help us get away from reality whenever we need to. But from time to time, it gets rather samey and watching a show or scrolling through your feed doesn't keep you entertained anymore:
This is when a Twitter page with over 1.3M followers dedicated to "quite interesting" facts comes to the rescue: nearly 50K tweets worth of lightweight and educational posts that'll keep you occupied for hours. We've gathered a few of the best ones, but don't hesitate to use the comment section to add your "quite interesting" fact.
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Besides, the “Quite Interesting” Twitter page is actually a game show that currently broadcasts on the BBC Two channel. It started out in 2003 and already has 19 seasons. However, the quiz show has more of a comedic twist where well-known British personalities compete and score points not necessarily based on the correctness of their answers but the funniness. And as for the plot of the show, it focuses on the participants answering obscure questions, making it almost impossible to give a correct answer, which is why humor remains the main focus.
Copying articles from Reddit to Bored Panda?
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He worked for a company that make perfumes. But the lawsuit wasn't that the work itself was boring, but in fact the opposite: the lawsuit was over him being bullied by his manager, and part of the bullying was that he was often not allowed to work - that he was forced to sit and do nothing for many hours, subsequently becoming so bored it damaged his mental health.
I’m glad he won compensation, that sounds like torture.
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There is a trend to force unwanted employees out by sending them into "boreout" - you just keep paying them, but remove nearly all of their duties, communications and means to do something - often disguised as "relieving them of stress and work overload". After a while, the lack of real work and the perpetual boredom will lead to mental health problems similar to burnout.
You wouldn't crave it once you were given it, it's ungodly torturous and the day never f*****g ends ~> you need a nice long break to recoup yourself, not being overly bored 40+ hours a week ... Not that your current job isn't ridiculously stressful, I'm not downplaying it or anything.
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Yeah, bore-out is a thing : meaningless job, feeling overpaid for unethical aim...there's a movement on high graduated youth: they downgrade to less paid job ( as butcher, baker, plumber...) because what you accomplish on one day is more feelable
YES! meaningless job making you "stressed" about that, is called brown-out (https://www.mensura.be/en/blog/brownout-the-stage-before-burnout)
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Not to be an old poop but isn't the fellow partially to blame for his circumstance. Couldn't he have moved on with another company!
I once had a job with Experian checking the electoral register for spelling mistakes, it would have to be pretty bad to be worse than that.
You had something to do; he often had no work to do.
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Boring jobs cause stress. We often think high stress ones are the really busy over worked roles with a ton of responsibility (like a plastic surgeon for example) but jobs at the other end of the scale can be just as stressful but in a different way (partly because our culture suggests mindless jobs are easy but they come with low status and money pressures
millennial..:) home now with mom and using the money to by pokeman cards from Logan paul :) yes assuming this but probably offend a few of the snowflakes out there
Definition of imposter syndrome: "Imposter syndrome is loosely defined as doubting your abilities and feeling like a fraud. It disproportionately affects high-achieving people, who find it difficult to accept their accomplishments. Many question whether they're deserving of accolades."
there obviously preparing for the international peanut butter famine of 2024
I don't know if it's true but I've heard ginger cats are mostly male.
Absolute nonsense, and when I tell my cats about this they'll come and beat you up
I'm pretty sure plumbers installed less known saxopipes in our house.
System of a Down's album entitled "Toxicity" was released two years before Britney Spears' song "Toxic." Just saying.
"Only"? Human beings have been around for 150,000 years and 1/15 of the total are alive now.
The tweets don’t have sources but boredpanda didn’t mention that the Quite Interesting Twitter is the one for the show QI which, while it does make mistakes and misrepresentations, has a hefty team of “QI Elves” which research this stuff. https://qi.com/elves
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I like theses because you can be stupid and funny which isn't a stretch for me! But I do Google a lot after - Is that a good thing?
The tweets don’t have sources but boredpanda didn’t mention that the Quite Interesting Twitter is the one for the show QI which, while it does make mistakes and misrepresentations, has a hefty team of “QI Elves” which research this stuff. https://qi.com/elves
Load More Replies... I like theses because you can be stupid and funny which isn't a stretch for me! But I do Google a lot after - Is that a good thing?
