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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.
This is extremely difficult to back up because sarcasm rarely works in text, and any human interaction is going to be immediately biased and flawed so measurement is worthless
This one reminds me of the "stat" that flirting is basically 50/50. Half the time you think you're being flirted with, you aren't, and half the time you're flirting with someone, they won't pick up on it. I don't know if that one is real cause I can't remember where I heard it, but it always stuck with me cause it basically means that your interpretation is pretty much going to be wrong half the time
I read that as a sarcastic post so I really don't know if it's saying we're actually worse at it or not.
Perhaps it's due to the fact that sarcasm requires intellect, which is woefully deficient among many people.
Hmm somehow I find that hard to believe. My family members are all sooo good at detecting sarcasm. -_-
To detect sarcasm you have to be highly intelligent. I also heard most authistic and asperger people have difficulties in recognizing sarcasm.
Ladies and gentlemen sarcasm is an art that should be appreciated and closely listened to!
What? No, wait. Ha, ha....good one. Wait, really? No way! OK, I get you now. I think.
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?
