30 Random Facts That Seem Too Hard To Believe, Yet Are Completely True, As Shared In This Twitter Thread
It’s hard to imagine life without the internet and without being able to google answers to random questions that come to our minds during the day. The whole world’s knowledge, history and art is at our fingertips and we learn so much kind of useless but very interesting information.
The problem with it is that there are a lot of made-up facts. Sometimes it’s hard to distinguish between what is true and what is false because it can sound so convincing. On the other hand, the world itself is crazy and some events might seem so unbelievable that you would take them for a lie.
People on Twitter were sharing this kind of random knowledge that sounds fake but is true in a Twitter thread created by @EricMGarcia, who asked “What is a fact that sounds like a s**tpost but is 100 percent real?” These facts challenge the way we see the world and our current knowledge, making them sound preposterous, but they are very correct.
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People are curious creatures and we like to know things even though they don’t benefit us directly. Some of us even go to university to study things that don’t have true practicality, but we just desire knowledge in that particular field despite knowing that it will be difficult to find a job or apply that knowledge practically.
We get satisfaction from learning such facts like how two unrelated people lived at the same time in history or that all of the Solar system planets would fit in between the Moon and the Earth, even though it is useless information that you can’t use for your own survival.
sad but true. My self and my fellow people need to change a lot. I did not expect what would happen in the replies.Enter at ur own risk. I was stupid when I first posted this comment, and have grown. we all grow, in the end. good luck in your growth.
Information seeking is actually not just a human trait. Every animal explores its surroundings and wants to know things about their environment and other living creatures that are near. But curiosity is the yearning to know the answer and that is what sets humans apart.
Obviously, it started with humans wanting to know their surroundings to survive and it was what helped us develop and achieve the advancements that actually are practical and useful for our lives. The Encyclopedia Britannica claims that “Over thousands of years, only the most curious people reproduced, leading to the characteristic curiosity of modern-day humans.”
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Yet there are more stars than grains of sand. Astronomy stops making sense after you reach scales like these
Now curiosity doesn’t have that practical aspect, but we seek it because our brain rewards us for getting to know more. The Encyclopedia Britannica explains, “Researchers have determined that dopamine, the brain’s reward chemical, is intricately linked to the brain’s curiosity state. When you explore and satisfy your curiosity, your brain floods your body with dopamine, which makes you feel happier. This reward mechanism increases the likelihood that you’ll try and satisfy your curiosity again in the future.”
There are actually two types of curiosity: epistemic and empathic. Epistemic curiosity is the one that makes you research something you want to know about more and empathic is the one that drives you to get to know what other people think and feel. And the more you encourage both types of curiosity, the easier it is for you to learn even more.
We couldn’t have come this far as a species without having curiosity and without trying to learn things that might seem useless or illogical. The best part is that our brain itself makes us feel happy about knowing things and learning.
So did your brain ward you for reading through this list? Which fact surprised you the most? Do you know of any other facts that sound very bizarre but are actually true? Share them in the comments and upvote the facts that made your brain release the most dopamine!
In 60 or so years, this will be "There was only 66 years between the invention of Twitter and the apocalypse."
I look back to 1956 all the time…it’s the year I was born. I turn 66 in a month.
Did a quick Google of 1956 - Worlds first hard drive from IBM, 16MB, 1 ton, 16sqft. Today we have 20TB (>1million times the size), a few pounds, 3.5". Make of that what you will.
We básica went from "from revolution to revolution" to "let's tweak with what already exists a bit a resell a slightly better version".
Load More Replies...My grandfather was born in 1890 and died at age 90 in 1980. In that time, 2 world wars, flight was invented, rockets perfected, and men walked on the moon. All of this in his lifetime.
Well, just look at what happened technologically between 1956 and now!
We could make it comparable by pointing out the progression from Yahtzee then to Elden Ring today
In 1956, the first computer with a hard-drive was shipped. Now we have so much storage capacity that we record inconsequential data for decades in case it might be useful.
And it only took how many thousands of years to get to the Wright Bros...
Think about this: the 19th century was more mind-blowing than the 20th. In 1800, travel and communication were basically the same as they'd been since the creation of written language. By the US Civil War, photographs of every battlefield were available hundreds of miles from the action, every retreat included wrecking railroad tracks and telegraph wires (and every advance included repairing them), and a Gatling gun could wipe out a platoon in seconds. By 1900, you could travel from Europe to the US or from New York to San Francisco in a week, get a telegram from most parts of the world in minutes, take photos with a consumer camera, listen to recorded music or speeches, watch a movie, or speak in real time with someone a thousand miles away.
Load More Replies...I think in those terms with computers. I'm 53 and remember sitting in high school thinking maybe I should check out the new compter lab. "Naw, they'll just be for those math and science guys." - me in 1987.
This is a damn shame, but things probably wouldn't have progressed so quickly without the world wars, the Korean War and the Cold War.
We kinda peaked after that. We went to the moon, then instead of those vast gleaming cities with flying cars of sci-fi, we got music in stick, talking maps, portable phones (which people avoid actually talking to other people on) and blankets with sleeves.
I dread to think what people in 66yrs time will be looking back and thinking about this year! (I hope people can understand that sentence because, honestly, I'm kinda struggling to understand what I myself wrote 🤪😖🤯)
In the 1950's, a computer far less powerful than a modern wristwatch took up a whole room. Today we have virtual reality and cars that can drive themselves.
However, the Chinese had been building rockets as both fireworks and weapons for hundreds of years before the Wright brothers.
The wright brothers didn't build a rocket. The principles of rocketry and aerodynamics and lift are completely different.
Load More Replies...Probably will take more time between Moon and Mars then took between powered flight and Moon
You do know that the size of your IQ is inverse to the size of your conspiracy theory, correct?
Load More Replies...I sense a disturbance in the force....nope that's gary's blood.
Not exactly though. The first device that we would recognize as a "fax" came in 1880 with Shelford Bidwell's 'scanning phototelegraph'. It was able to scan a 2D original document, rather than previous machines which required an operator to manually trace over the original with a stylus
Beckett lived in the same village, and had a truck. If he passed the village kids walking to school, he would stop and let them hop into the flatbed of his truck and he would drive them to or from school. But it wasn’t singular to Andre, it was any kid in the village.
That's because there has technically only been one Democratic senator from Vermont, Patrick Leahy (Bernie Sanders is an Independent). He's been a senator since 1974.
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Pluto has volcanoes made from water, not lava. It is also so cold there that nitrogen is solid at the surface. There is a possibility that Pluto may harbour life. The moons Europa(jupiter’s), Enceladus and Titan (saturn’s) have a chance of sustaining life
Better, and lesser known, than any single item in the post. Thank you.
Load More Replies...The most common type of person to die from a gunshot wound in America is... a married, white male over 50, with physical health issues. A fact about suicide that nobody talks about.
Women are four times as likely to attempt suicide than men, just far less likely to be successful because they tend to use less violent methods. This is suspected to be because women care more about the affect they will have on the people who find them. Anyone who tries to pull out the old chestnut about "cry for attention" can go take a long walk off a short pier and to see if they can find their empathy and humanity.
Load More Replies...I am dumb, what does sh!tposts mean? the word itself, i what word you implied.
Load More Replies...A rather interesting post, I am a senior who is happy to learn more, thanks for the information !!!
A fact is a fact, numbnuts. Ours are just as good as yours.
Load More Replies...Pluto has volcanoes made from water, not lava. It is also so cold there that nitrogen is solid at the surface. There is a possibility that Pluto may harbour life. The moons Europa(jupiter’s), Enceladus and Titan (saturn’s) have a chance of sustaining life
Better, and lesser known, than any single item in the post. Thank you.
Load More Replies...The most common type of person to die from a gunshot wound in America is... a married, white male over 50, with physical health issues. A fact about suicide that nobody talks about.
Women are four times as likely to attempt suicide than men, just far less likely to be successful because they tend to use less violent methods. This is suspected to be because women care more about the affect they will have on the people who find them. Anyone who tries to pull out the old chestnut about "cry for attention" can go take a long walk off a short pier and to see if they can find their empathy and humanity.
Load More Replies...I am dumb, what does sh!tposts mean? the word itself, i what word you implied.
Load More Replies...A rather interesting post, I am a senior who is happy to learn more, thanks for the information !!!
A fact is a fact, numbnuts. Ours are just as good as yours.
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