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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.
That's a strange way to phrase it. Would be better as "99.6% of Tortoiseshell cats are female"
I thought the same, but then again...maybe they identify as 0.4% male?
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Coloration in cats is controlled by the X chromosome. So The 99.6% applies to cats having more than 1 color (white coloration is not included in that). So Calico, Tortoiseshells, etc are 99.6% likely to be female. Also cats with white and blue eyes are likely to be deaf.
White cats with blue eyes. tend to be deaf. I had two.
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That's a calico in the picture but yes, for both tortie and calico goes that you can assume they are always female. A male 3-color is extremely rare, so rare it's hardly been documented, and if it happens they are sterile
I had two, but so long ago I don't recall offspring. One (Drat That Fat Bat Cat) was mostly white with Siamese ears/tail w two grey and two pale orange spots between his ears. His bro (Titty Titty Tat Tat, for where he liked to sleep and cause the movie was new) was a dark tuxedo tabby w orange mixed in.
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THAT is NOT a Tortie!! A true Tortie has ZERO white. White fur makes it a Calico!!
No need to shout. We can hear you just fine!
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And 4% what? Humanoid, robots, aliens? Could have written this one better.
I've only ever known/owned female torties but didn't think anything of it.
My two cats that I have now are ginger (both male) and their sisters were both tortoiseshell or calico (although calicos are also almost always female too). The weird thing is their dad was calico (or tortoiseshell I can’t recall which) and their mom was ginger.
I've known 2 ginger females, including ours called Biscuit. The vet I used to work for said she was once brought a male tortoiseshell for neutering and she wouldn't do it. (this would have been in the 50s or 60s)
But my vet says if they have white spots they are Calicos. True????
So they are 0,4% male. Well, we all have both a feminine and a masculine side.
The genes determining colouration of a cat can be connected to those that affect the cat's gender.
Over 99% of all tortoiseshell animals are actual tortoises and 100% of tortoiseshell necklaces are not made from cats.
My calico cat we had when I was a kid, had a male calico kitten. That is when I found out they are rare.
I thought they were only tortoiseshell if they didn't have any white. With white, they're Calico (I was told).
that's because the alleles for red or black are on the x chromosomes. in every cell, one of the x chromosomes is inactivated, in tortoises you can see it. so they support the lyon hypothesis! and also show skewed x inactivation. also, they're wonderful. sometimes there are cats with klinefelter's Syndrom, those have xxy, therefore phenotypical male, but still with two x. that's how this works. :-)
Can confirm that both of mine are girls. :) Can also confirm that both of them are weird.
Hello, I am a tortoiseshell cat. I'm 99.6% female, and maybe 0.3% non-binary. :D lol
Males are XXY and are almost always infertile. Apparently white cats are mostly male too, although we once had a female. More likely to be deaf if they have blue eyes.
No, white is a dominant masking gene, not linked to X, and can mask any color cat, so it doesn't matter if it's male or female. Same for albino (but recessive).
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Yes this is true. Females particularly have no white markings.
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?
