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Someone Online Wondered: “What’s A Random Fact You Think Is Worth Sharing?“, And 30 Users Delivered
Every person wants to know everything there is to our existence. Small things, big things – it doesn't matter as long as we constantly feed our minds with bits of information. Besides, knowing stuff is good even if you understand that you'd probably never need that knowledge. Just think about it, curiosity is an essential part of our everyday life, all that social media, magazines, books, TV shows – we're always learning, yet we're never fully satisfied.
We want to know exactly how the universe was formed; we want to know if we'll be stuck in traffic on the way back home tomorrow and whether that new movie truly is as great as people say it is. Our brain constantly processes things, and sometimes all you need is to read about some facts to have a good night's sleep.
A member of one of Reddit's online communities asked fellow Redditors to share a few random facts that folks absolutely needed to know. The post received over 7K upvotes and 5.1K comments, revealing things about everything and anything.
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Eugene Aldrin, the father of the famous moon landing astronaut Buzz Aldrin, not only witnessed the Wright brothers’ first flight but also went to see his son land on the moon in his lifespan.
We’ve been quick!
Corgi is a translation of the welsh for dwarf dog. Cor gi. In the Mabinogion, the welsh book of myths and legends, corgis were the battle steeds of fairies
Human's ability smell petrichor (smell of wet earth from rain) is greater than a Shark's ability to smell blood in water.
Microorganisms called actinobacteria are mostly responsible for this lovely smell; the smell is because of the alcohol they produce after decomposing organic matter.
the first 1080p video on youtube was the muppet's rendition of bohemian rhapsody
Honeybees can be trained to sniff out land mines in war zones! Obviously dogs can do it but to avoid blowing up poor unsuspecting doggos, they figured out that bees could do the same thing and swarm the area without setting the mine off to alert people to its presence
Tigers are orange and black to humans, but to animals with hooves, their prey, they appear green and black and blend in with the jungle around them.
The figure in Munch's 'The Scream' is not screaming but is, in fact, reacting to hearing the scream.
Bob Ross was a Drill Instructor. When he stopped working as that, he promised he would not raise his voice at someone again. That's why he was so soft spoken.
Some people don’t have a inner dialogue, some can’t picture in their mind, and some have / can do both.
I can do both, but I really can’t imagine having no inner dialogue...what’s their brain doing all day?
I wish I could turn off my inner monologue! It never stops nattering away unhelpfully, not even when I need to sleep.
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i just thought about something. i like to read heroic fantasy, and when i'm reading, i see the whole "world" the author has built in my mind, including the characters. soooo many times, i find it off-putting when they make a movie out of it and it looks nothing like what was in my head. that being said, GoT, and WoT did a pretty good job of matching my mental picture, both with the geography and the characters. WoT especially did a fabulous job with the casting.
saaame. I had this great mental image and they ruin it
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I can't create a picture of things in my mind at all. I never knew anyone could until recently. My inner dialogue however, never shuts up. Non stop.
Neither can I. When I learned people actually saw things in their heads, just a couple of years ago, I was blown away. I know the QUALITY of things, but no actual pictures in my head. I still think the others are lying. Lol
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my maths teacher in 8th grade said that she pictures the words she hears however, I hear what I read and even while typing this I can hear my voice speaking the words. brains are weird (no wonder I'm bad at spelling)
I literally having a backing track of a song playing in my head at all times. It’s pretty cool actually
Same. My ear worms are so bothersome sometimes that I can't sleep. I have a hard time changing the tune!
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Aphantasia. I have no inner dialogue nor can I picture stuff from description, also my memories do not "exist" if I do not tell them out loud. I lived most of my life thinking this was normal, untill I was told it is infact pretty rare to have a blank mind.
Same, for both! Spent most of my life not knowing nearly everyone else had such active minds and mine is just blank.
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I have no inner dialogue. Mind readers would be getting soooo bored listening to me.
How do you think of what you're going to say?
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I have both and never knew others did not. It's really annoying sometimes and makes it impossible to fall asleep. Knowing that I will not be sleeping makes it worse. It's like the voice gets louder. It's my voice, but sometimes I have to just get up and work the night through.
My husband and I are both avid readers. When I read I a have a full movie playing in my head. I love descriptive authors that can help me get a nice clear view. My husband apparently sees nothing, and gets annoyed with authors who spend time describing what anyone or anything looks like if it is not critical to the plot.
I have a vivid inner eye, but I also get tired of long winded descriptions in books. I think some of that might come down to taste
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I can do both very strongly. When recalling information read in a book or on a webpage I have to picture the words on the page and find what I am looking for. I also have extremely vivid dreams every single night.
Me too, including sounds, touch, colour, smell, and if I'm dreaming of eating, also taste.
Load More Replies... I have such a vivid inner dialogue and imagery that I often struggle to remember if I experienced something or was I just told about it by someone else.
You mean there are people who don't have to hear themselves in their head all day? Tell me of this magic....
I have to listen to the radio, podcasts or to watch tv to stop my inner toughts. And even then it's still difficult to shut myself up.
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I can't picture things necessarily. Like if you tell me to picture a green apple I can imagine the apple but I don't see a picture of the apple in my brain. I do however have an inner monologue. Some people only have inner monologues when they're reading, I'm the opposite. I always have an inner monologue except when I'm reading. When I read I do that picturing thing where I feel sucked into the environment of the book and my vision kinda blanks out but I don't actually see anything. My brain registers my vision enough to see the words but not to actually show me the book page.
I feel like the way you described getting sucked into the book is a perfect example of being able to picture things in your mind. I'm curious how you imagine the apple if you don't picture it. Do you mean you imagine it with other senses, like touch and smell?
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It's like how men have the Nothing box in their brains and it's their favorite box and literally when they're in it there's nothing or so I've been told and I'm beyond jealous of that and also these folks with no inner dialogue because my inner voice never shuts the **** up
that's me. i actually cannot visualize things in my mind. also i only found out recently that people have inner monologues... like what?
It is not so good to not be able to picture something in your mind. I can picture things like those trees from babies picture books. But even if I try to concentrate on them they disappeare. I cannot picture anything I would like to draw in my mind. Only a loom and it melts like water when I try to look at it. So I can never new how what I like to draw should look. I can only think with words, they should be such eyes, such hair, such head form.... it is stupid! I never recognized I can't picture things in my mind cause there are those looms, which I though were pictures. SInce I really needed that feature. :-(
How can someone have no inner dialogue? Do they never think about what they are going to say before they speak to someone or imagine how that person might respond? Or consider pros and cons of a desicion they are trying to make?
I think I can picture things in my mind, but I'm not sure. I can imagine what something looks like, but It doesn't seem as real, clear or detailed as an inner dialog.
I wish mine would shut up every once in a while so I can concentrate on something else.
Can't imagine no inner dialogue ... always thought everyone had it. As in "be quiet, I can't hear myself think!" ... What about reading? Do you not hear the words in your head?
I had never heard of this until a few weeks ago on this app. It blows my mind. I just figured everyone could visualize things.
I can do both. Does that make me weird? I'm also an ambidextrous, & a survivor twin.
I can do both! I can not imagine what it is like to not see pictures in your mind!
How can I find out whether I have an inner dialogue or if I am imagining things?
I have no inner dialogue, the vast majority of my thoughts are just images with information. The only time words are spoken in there is if im thinking of what i want to say, or what someone said to me.
I picture images in my head but they are never detailed enough to be dimensionally accurate. When I begin drawing things good old Euclidean geometric laws step in and I realize some part simply will not work or makes no sense.
My mom has the opposite. She narrates her life. Every single thing she's doing or thinking of doing or wondering or pondering. All effing day.
I do both and didn’t realise you could do neither :( makes me sad
Internal dialog never stops. Sometimes it interrupts the outer dialog.
i was so surprised when i learned that not everyone has an inner dialogue. there is a CONSTANT stream of "chatter" in my mind when i'm awake. can also "hear" pictures (didn't realize that was even a thing till i tried it after reading alexis and k witmer's comments)
I can't picture anything in my mind (it's called aphantasia) I could not have been more surprised when I found out others could!! But my inner voice is my life, I do not know what i'd do without one.
I wish I could shut off my inner dialogue. It won't let me go to sleep! I can picture things in my mind -- my husband cannot. I have to draw him pictures so he understands what I'm trying to describe to him.
I have a nearly constant inner dialogue. I always assumed everyone did. It keeps me sane, to work out what's going on, what I need to do, how I'm going to respond. A friend and I were talking and ends up, she doesn't have one. It freaked me out for a bit. BUT she says before going to sleep, she takes 3 deep breaths and she's out. Maybe that's why I'm an insomniac.
I can only visualize numbers and equations. Not landscapes or faces or structures, just numbers. As for my inner dialogue, I want to gag it!
I can't picture in my mind, and sometimes, in the middle of the night wish I didn't have an inner dialog either.
How can anyone live without an inner dialogue? Where else can they seek good answers?
I have both. I honestly thought everyone did. ( not trying to be rude I just didn't know😁) I can't imagine not having both.
Have both, always assumed everyone was the same. Might reassess my opinions on some people.
I have an inner dialogue. Sometimes I just wish my brain would stfu. But I can't form images in my mind and I eventually came to understand that's why I would never be an artist. In a related happenstance, I'm also on the spectrum of face blind.
I hear every word I type, read, or speak in my head. I talk to myself all day and it keeps me up most nights. Tone, inflection, personality - all that. In fact, I have to listen to the tv when falling asleep to try to silence my brain, and I absolutely can't listen to music because I would be up all night singing in my head lol. I also am able to visualize everything, even memories from 20+ years ago - granted, some better than others. It's hard for me to grasp brains working any other way.
I've spent a lot of time and can now, with great effort, picture a number, short word and very brief pictures of important faces for a flash. Inner dialogue, for sure. Explains why visualization relaxation techniques never worked for me. They actually made me more anxious as if I was failing or becoming less intelligent somehow.
I was sitting outside reading and started to doze the book continuing on in movie form in my head. Wondering where the hell I was. Happened twice more and I went in. Softer to fall in there.
I hear music and lyrics and see accompanying video and imagery, and it always seems like it's in the right side of my head. My hearing is bad in that ear, not sure if they're related. Anyway, this strange little radio station in my head, I call it KSMQ "cosmic radio", and it tunes in best when I've done a lot of mental/ emotional / spiritual work: forgiven people who have hurt me, given up resent, let go of frustration, and meditated. Practicing gratitude helps too. The clearer I am, the quieter that inner dialogue is, and I'll start hearing these little tunes, seeing mental imagery to go with, and then sometimes words come. I've captured an album's worth in the last couple years, I'm looking forward to recording this year.
I have an inner radio station that plays the same song over and over while I'm trying to go to sleep ...
I briefly heard about the latter phenomenon (called aphantasia) in my environmental science class fairly recently. We had an assignment where we were supposed to "draw what we imagine" after reading something, but the teacher wanted to make sure that nobody had aphantasia before continuing with the assignment because he was aware that it'd be unfair if someone literally couldn't picture anything in their minds.
I’m not sure about this, though. If you tell me to draw a mountain, I could draw it because I know the physical characteristics—I know that it has peaks, that sometimes there are clouds. I know WHAT a triangle is and that it forms a peak, so I can draw that. I know clouds are white and fluffy, so using that description I could draw those shapes because I know them. But I don’t see them in my head. I don’t see anything when I close my eyes and think about a mountain or a cloud…but I have to say, that was super thoughtful and kind of the teacher.
Load More Replies... Isn't there even a test available? Where the task is pretty simple to imagine e.g. an apple and depending how detailed the apple will be you will be placed accordingly on the imagination scale ?
There are but they aren’t considered “scientific”.
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Lol… okay so my moms bathroom have a shower, and then there was like a 5 foot wall and then the bathtub was connected to it. So i was taking a shower when i was like 7, and my sister was in the bathtub. I started saying my inner dialogue and imagining the story. Its like i was creating a movie in my head and was reciting the dialogue without knowing it? Anyways my sister laughed and told me what i was doing, and said she did that too.
I have inner dialogue but no pictures. Husband reckons that is why it is so easy for me to get lost as I dont retain pictures of where I have been before.
I've got both but the dialogue isn't complete. For as long as I remember I also have a weird way I visualise the days of the week. Every day has a colour but some I can't describe. It also runs from right to left and looks kinda like a slide.
It's called Aphantasia. You can't picture things in your mind, and you can't have dreams.
I can't picture things in my mind, but I have very, very vivid dreams.
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Everyone has mental pictures otherwise some people couldn't remember faces Also if someone has no inner monologue how do they perceive thoughts and compose sentences
I don't have mental picture. I recognize faces, but I would struggle to describe ky child's face to you. I know hair/eye color, but can't see them when I think of them. I know the toddler has a long face, the middle child has a round face and I assume the oldest is just average, because I can't think of a way to describe it. Must go look at my child now, lol.
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I've got Aphantasia (the latter of the two) and I also can't imagine smells and tastes. I got unlucky though because I always have an inner monologue going and I've always got songs stuck in my head. Weirdly, I can't think of a sound and hear it even though I'm constantly hearing songs.
Can people with inner dialogue actually hear it? I have thoughts and a dialogue but i dont hear it i just know it has been thought, if that makes sense? I wonder if this fact purely comes down to how people interpret those thoughts? Some will say they heard it some will say they didn't.
I can't hear it with my ears. It's like an imaginary voice inside my thoughts
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My inner dialogue consists of dnf and a song that hase the line "screw the dialogue" in it. Undertale the musical by Logan Huhgneu Clark.
I kind of have both: no inner monologue, my thoughts when I take the time to think them are like reading words on a page as they come to me. I also don't imagine things without effort
I have an inner dialogue in my head but rarely do I see in pictures. Even my dreams are like I'm reading text in a book.
I am the opposite. For example, when I read a book, I don't see the words or the pages. All I can remember is the film I made in my mind. Even when I try to remember a story I have red, I only see images.
Load More Replies... I do most of the time too. Lately its been Brandi Carlile....song is playing about half way thru when i get up each morning. She is awesome!!
there is a song playing in my head every morning when i wake up and i never know what it's gonna be. sometimes it's a song i haven't heard in literally decades. it's very weird. lol
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It's when you "hear" your thoughts spoken out in your head.
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Is this true, or just an internet hoax that everyone believes because it makes them feel smarter?
That's strange, like suggesting eye color or the shape of your fingernails determines how smart you are.
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Thanks for your opinion. It's brave of you to make assumptions about other people's experiences of reality, but I'm not sure why you felt the need to share it. It's better to keep quiet and let people think you're an idiot than open your mouth and prove them right.
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Lamborghini started making supercars because Enzo Ferrari was being a jerk to Ferruccio Lamborghini.
The sun is not yellow. When viewed outside earths atmosphere it is white. It only looks yellow due to our atmosphere "pulling" the blue light out, leaving it looking yellow. It's an illusion.
NASA purposely edit pictures to look yellow so they look familiar to people.
There are more people living in California than in the whole of Canada
There are so many different varieties of apple that if you ate a different one every day for 20 years you will still not have eaten them all.
If you type the word "askew" into the Google search box, the entire page will tilt slightly.
Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards. Their wings can rotate 180 degrees in every direction.
I... Somehow picturing that low-key terrifies me. It's just so weird... Then again nature is full of surprises, just look at owls and their 360° turning heads. Why didn't humans get any cool sh*t like that? I am still mad at mother nature for taking our tails away, I want a tail god damn you!
That the patent for the fire hydrant was lost in a fire
Fun Fact: There’s a single fire hydrant in San Francisco that’s painted gold because it was the one that put out the last of the fire from the 1906 earthquake.
Elizabeth II has been Queen of England for 70 years. Only 9% of the world's population is older than 65. This means that only about 1 out of 12 people in the world today have lived in a world where she was not the queen.
For a while, King Bhumiphon of Thailand was in the forefront...but then he died
If you find a four leaf clover then there is a good chance you'll find more not too far away.
Dogs that are slightly underweight live an average of two years longer than dogs that are slightly overweight.
Komodo dragons are the largest animals in the world capable of reproducing asexually
Also, if you’re bitten by one the chances of you dying from infection is exceptionally high because they have so much dead matter on their teeth
Whenever you learn a new skill, like learning to play guitar or learning to skate, new connections are formed in our brains in the neurons.
It was forbidden to ride on moose in sweden until 1973. An old law forbade such for fear of rebels
There was a short period of time when Picasso and Snoop Dogg were both alive together.
The first person to write about tofu in the English language was Benjamin Franklin.
It's against the law to use an elephant to plow a cotton field in North Carolina.
What about if you trained the elephant to drive a tractor and attached a plough?
Finland isn't scandinavic, its nordic (its not random but people still think its scandinavic)
A platypus makes venom. One of several interesting things about them.
When a person receives a kidney transplant they don’t take out the old kidneys, they just shove em to the side and leave em in there.
No. They do not shove them to the side. That's ludicrous. The two original kidneys remain in place and will ultimately shrink and become completely non-functionable.. The new transplanted kidney is placed, typically, in the lower right abdomen which is then connected to the bladder. There will always be a small pooched out area visible where the new kidney resides. My son is a transplant recipient. We are forever grateful for his anonymous donor who left this world.
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Well I've never heard of or seen a car produce sausages
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Ruby and sapphire are the same mineral, corundum. Ruby is corundum in a narrow color band between strongly orangy-red and strongly purplish-red. Sapphire is every other color of corundum, and corundum forms in just about every color imaginable.
Orange sapphires used to be pretty cheap and they're gorgeous. They're still relatively cheap compared to rubies and blue sapphires.
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I googled it and Google says it is not possible, but I promise, I grew 1.5 inches after 40.
perhaps your posture improved & you started standing at your full height instead of slouching?
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did you know that there are more planes in the ocean than boats in the sky? ;-)
Commercial turkeys have been artifically inseminated for so long they look to humans for sex. If one stands in one place in the barn for too long hens will smother each other trying to get bred.
Splinter-free toilet paper didn’t exist until the 1930s. Before that, people used tp that gave them butt splinters.
In Wales they used newspaper, and were so called the black bottoms. In the middle east, I heard they used sand paper so got called the red bottoms.
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The first mention in fiction of what we would recognise as a cell phone is in the 1948 novel "Space Cadet" by Robert Heinlein.
Apples are related to roses, bromeliads are related to pineapples, hedge apples are related to mulberries, and jack fruit are related to breadfruit
Tomatoes and potatoes are related to deadly nightshade.
Load More Replies... I was in the grocery store tonight and had my ear buds in. Queen had just finished as I pictured the head rocking scene from Wayne's World. Immediately following was the Muppet version. I was getting the weirdest looks laughing so hard I was almost in tears. When Miss Piggy finished it off, I wouldn't have been surprised if 911had been called on a 51/50.
Well I've never heard of or seen a car produce sausages
Load More Replies... Ruby and sapphire are the same mineral, corundum. Ruby is corundum in a narrow color band between strongly orangy-red and strongly purplish-red. Sapphire is every other color of corundum, and corundum forms in just about every color imaginable.
Orange sapphires used to be pretty cheap and they're gorgeous. They're still relatively cheap compared to rubies and blue sapphires.
Load More Replies... I googled it and Google says it is not possible, but I promise, I grew 1.5 inches after 40.
perhaps your posture improved & you started standing at your full height instead of slouching?
Load More Replies... did you know that there are more planes in the ocean than boats in the sky? ;-)
Commercial turkeys have been artifically inseminated for so long they look to humans for sex. If one stands in one place in the barn for too long hens will smother each other trying to get bred.
Splinter-free toilet paper didn’t exist until the 1930s. Before that, people used tp that gave them butt splinters.
In Wales they used newspaper, and were so called the black bottoms. In the middle east, I heard they used sand paper so got called the red bottoms.
Load More Replies... The first mention in fiction of what we would recognise as a cell phone is in the 1948 novel "Space Cadet" by Robert Heinlein.
Apples are related to roses, bromeliads are related to pineapples, hedge apples are related to mulberries, and jack fruit are related to breadfruit
Tomatoes and potatoes are related to deadly nightshade.
Load More Replies... I was in the grocery store tonight and had my ear buds in. Queen had just finished as I pictured the head rocking scene from Wayne's World. Immediately following was the Muppet version. I was getting the weirdest looks laughing so hard I was almost in tears. When Miss Piggy finished it off, I wouldn't have been surprised if 911had been called on a 51/50.
