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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.
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.
Close. Lightfoot also calculated that world was created on the fall equinox, but in the 3929BCE. Irish Archbishop John Ussher calculated the year 4004BCE, and that became the most commonly used year among Biblical literalists. There was a gap between being able to add up the ages of men in the Old Testament and verifiable historical events in the New Testament. Over decades he obtained an extremely large library for the time, purchased from around the whole of Europe and the Middle East, and finally found a document that spanned the gap. For the time, it was pretty amazing research. I highly recommend Martin Gorst's excellent book, Measuring Eternity, about the search for the age of the Earth and ultimately the universe itself. It’s amazing to watch the science grow little by little, and occasionally in leaps and bounds.
So thats where the christians get the whole 6000 years old thing.
378 years and a lot of scientific discoveries later, some people still firmly believe such calculation was good math for estimating our planet's age. But not as many people as those who think Earth was created 2022 years ago.
"...those who think Earth was created 2022 years ago." is an even weirder idea to me than the other (bs) idea of Earth only being 6000 years old.
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Anyone who read Good Omens knows the real time the world was created ;).
Reporting on the foolish isn't quite as interesting as quite interesting thinks it is.
Lightfoot figured out the age of the world based on time in the bible + the time known since certain events in classical times. He picked that time because the first thing God did was "Let there be light". Until the invention of the gas light, all you had was ambient light. Then, like now, the workday started at 9am because that's when there was enough light to get stuff done. God turned on the first light on the first day when they started their days in 1644. The pendulum clock wasn't invented for another 10 or so years so the days officially started at 9AM instead of midnight. The date (Oct 23) was the result of the incomplete transition from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar and both of their relationship to the Jewish Anno Mundi (where we get am from for 9am) calendar which said the world was created on their version of Sep 7. Because of the differences of the calendars and missing/extra days, the Sep 7 of the Jewish calendar in 1644 = Oct 23 for Lightfoot's parish in England.
Check out calendars and time in England. The Gregorian calendar (the one we use) was declared by the Pope in 1582 but England didn't follow the pope (most of the time) after Henry VIII did his thing. Certain parts of the public would use different calendars and cause confusion. Great Britain and the American colonies didn't officially switch over until 1752.
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So the world was coursework? I always handed in at the last minute as well!
Correct me So he thought world was 4004+2022=6026 years old? Right? Nope.
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?
