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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.
It is also incorrect we have three official languages English Māori and nz sign language
Load More Replies...English is an official language here in NZ, so we have three languages! Te reo- that's the name of the Māori language is learned in all schools but it's limited, there are only a few Māori preschools and primary schools, but they are growing. Te reo is a beautiful language and my hope is that we will become bi-lingual in the near future! My favourite word is the colour pink as it is ma whero, which is white (ma) and red (whero) together! Also you can learn Te reo for free which is pretty awesome!
As a New Zealander, my first thought was "Well that's wrong". But after checking more than one official government website, I have to admit that this is both specifically and technically, correct, and somewhat surprising.
English isn't a de jure official language in the UK because, oddly enough, it doesn't need to be. Welsh, however, IS an official language :)
Did not an Indigenous language help us to win WW2! Give credit where credit is due - not here!
And of course people go to New Zealand and never bother to learn either of the official languages!
I'm loving New Zealand more and more. Wish I knew then what I know now because I would've ditched this American hellhole long ago.
I just discovered that Florida has 3 official languages, English, Spanish and Creole
I’m sorry but this is wrong. I’m from NZ and we have 3 official languages, Māori, NZSL and English.
yep, now we look forward to the States having Cherokee, Sioux, Apache, etc., as official languages.
Load More Replies...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
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?
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?