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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
Just take it from Irish history which has always been a model of peacefulness.
I was looking for an Ireland reference lol You did not disappoint. "Interesting" side note: Ireland is currently the subject of the next entry in this list.
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Two years ago I wanted to plant rose. I saw a gardening show what said make a hole in a potato, put the rose haulm in it, and it will grow. The rose died but the potato outgrown. It had harvested and eaten.
it's the original positive sum game, if everyone is fixed to the land which they are on (in some way, most commonly potatoes because they are the most plentiful of food), they are less likely to risk it and more likely to compromise
The orphan killer has many brilliant points, this was one of them
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This is why studies are stupid, with enough stretching you could link the colour of the sky during conception, and the wage of the child as an adult
*some studies. You could also link astrological signs to personalities. Just imagine. /s
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In other words settle your differences by tossing potatoes at each other instead of bullets!
Huh? It's like the myth in my country 'It will rain ay your wedding if you drink milk directly from the pot' The 2 things don't correlate at all.
Thanks to esoteric academics providing us with useless "information" to gain tenure. So sad, actually...and we put them on a pedestal while devaluing trash haulers, delivery people, service workers, tradespeople, ...just shameful. Shameful.
That is because starvation causes mass anger with those "in charge". Man can take a lot of crap, but the family cannot be fed - governments have been overthrown. Just watched a show from "Secrets of the Dead" where the Old Kingdom of Egypt was ended because of takeover due to starvation of the countryside. There was a 20 year drought and no food.
Thank Goodness! Now the state of Idaho' is safe! Cue to The B52s song " You're living in your ow private Idaho'".
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?
