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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."
As I recall, Mexican chocolate is unsweetened, so bitter. Not a sweet item like we use here.
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and chocolate is a bean, so it's vegetables. Coffee comes from a berry so it's fruit. I have a fruit salad every day
Biologically they are not beans, they are mallows, like okra, cotton and hibiscus.
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real chocolate..not north american sugar / fat filled garbage..real cacao
Went to Mexico once and visited a little roadside stand, where a lady was selling these little, hardened cylinder-shaped logs. It was made of ground, roasted cocoa beans, cinnamon, and vanilla bean. She said to scrape some into a mug and add hot milk, and a bit of sugar if I wanted. Called it something like chocolate "tea". It was divine.
That does sound divine! I want to try some!
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If we stopped adding sugar to chocolate, it would be purely medicinal. And effectively so!
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And also only gave it to the comparatively elderly, regardless of rank / class. It wasn't chocolate BTW, it was Cocoa which is bitter beyond belief when eaten in it's raw form.
Chocolate causes constipation in many people, which is the opposite, uh, texture preferred with hemorrhoids.
They also made chocolate with hot peppers and I don't really see how it helped against hemorrhoids
Gout? I thought chocolate was one of the foods that actively causes symptoms in gout sufferers.
Chocolate was very different back then! Purely dark, no sugar, and very spicy. Also always a drink. Chocolate bar wasn't't a thing till J.S. Fry, an English chocolatier, invented it in 1847
Chocolate is a real wonder drug. It helps you forget your lost loves also!!!
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
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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?
