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.”
He's lucky he wasn't disemboweled. Beware the evil Ostrich foot! ostrich-de...2d33cf.jpg 
Yet there are more stars than grains of sand. Astronomy stops making sense after you reach scales like these
It's called aphantasia. Another, related, issue is that many people have no inner monologue.
And than there are people like me who just want a break from the inner movie Theater. -.-
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I cannot close my eyes without seeing things with my imagination. I have absolutely no idea what it is like to have a blank mind. Seriously. It's super stressful.
I have no clue how people think about literally nothing and I'm still not fully convinced its possible.
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Learned this fact last year at 34. So much now makes sense. I always assumed phrasing about visualizing you are somewhere were figurative, not literal.
That’s crazy to me as a deeply sensoral person (synesthesia, lots of mental visual stimuli and other kinds of stimuli trigger visuals in my mind) - I absolutely cannot imagine living without and I think the difference is really cool, I wonder what people who can’t mentally visualize experience that I don’t :) it’s like a whole world I’ll never see, the brain always compensates in interesting ways so there’s gotta be something! I’d love to see what it’s like to be in one of those minds for a day, I bet it’s richer than a lot of these people think
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can everyone do this with sound? like i can "play" Johnny Cash singing nursery rhymes in my head and it's hilarious and i've never been able to figure out if this is an everyone thing or a weird thing.
Yes I can do this too. On another thread I said I can smell things I picture in my head too. Like if a picture a gardenia I can smell it
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I'm one of them. I mean, clearly my imagination works with images, since I have vivid dreams, but I can't visualize things intentionally, not even the faces of my parents or my children. I recognize them in person or in photos, I just can't "see them" in my mind.
It never occurred to me that some people couldn’t
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I have this. I had no idea other people could will images into their mind until I was in my thirties
I am one of the ones who can't visualize. Unless I'm reading, then I'm just fine.
I can call up images of people and things but they aren't visual like an image on my retina but more like 3-D models in my brain and I don't even have to close my eyes to perceive them. Hard to describe it. I have inner dialogue but not constant and I usually can shut it down if I want. I know some people seem to have an inner dialogue connected right to their mouth. Also I can "playback" familiar music, voices and sounds in my head seemingly accurately but unfortunately lack the ability to feed that back to playing instruments well, as I don't have the good cross-brain connections of the talented musicians and artists.
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I can hear things in my head, and even hear notes I play on an invisible not real piano, which is useful for composition
Yes. I'm one of those people. An author can go on for many pages what a place or person looks like, I'd still only have a very vague and sketchy idea of how to imagine them. It must be really awesome to read a description and being able to visualize it.
When I read a book and I develop a somewhat fuzzy visualization of character in my mind. But later if I see that book made into a movie, upon re-reading the book I can't help but to visualize the actor and can no longer recall what the original face I had visualized looked like. For a book character that has not been made into movie or TV, like LMB's Miles Vorkosigan, I still have a decent recollection of what my mind's image of him looks like (even 10 years since I read it), but if it did get made into a movie that I watched then I would lose that mind's image.
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I have monologue or imagery or concepts/abstracts depending on what works for a particular situation. Even while I'm speaking, I'm aware of the process of choosing words and occasionally actively interfere in that process to force a specific word. The idea that others can think without this is mind-boggling.
Wow, is it distracting having that meta-awareness of your thought processes while you're having a conversation?
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This one was one of the shocking things to learn recently. In my half century plus I've come across a lot of people who say they're unable to "picture this", or who can't engage types of meditation that involve "envisioning". But to know that it's actually A Thing tripped me out. Like, a whole Faction of Humanity has no "inner vision"? Or inner dialogue?? Wow. I can not "imagine" hours and hours a day with no imagery or discussion going on in my head.
I can't imagine not being able to visualise, or not having inner monologue...
It seems like a slightly bleaker existence to me
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Can confirm this as I'm one of them. I had no idea until in my 40s that phrases like "the mind's eye" and "I can picture it" were not just phrases, but true for most people. I'm still incredulous that other people can see things that aren't there! must be scary to see imaginary things... but easier to deal with bereavement when you can see your loved ones whenever you like. If I could see anything I imagined, I'd just imagine a great holiday or a delicious feast and save myself a fortune!
How many of you can see with your imagination? If you can please up vote this ⬆️
I think more in sentences, like a mostly-controlled narrative, though I can occasionally (rarely) see static images; I can't do visualization exercises ("imagine you're on a beach...") because my brain just says, "ok, I'm on a beach. Now what?". I read Temple Grandin's Thinking In Pictures several years ago and was just blown away by the way her brain works.
Perhaps not being able to see and/or hear with our imagination wouldn't be so bad. I've ADHD and my mind is rarely quite and never blank. I gave up on meditation. At the same time, it saddens me to think I couldn't see or hear the faces and laughter of loved ones I've lost.
I can't see or hear things in my mind... but when I remember people, I remember the times we spent together, the things we did, the things they said, the way they made me feel. That's all far more important to me than what they look like.
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I have this, thought it was normal bc my sis has synistesia (sorry for bad spelling) and I thought it was just them who could see things in their head. Only found out when my friend told me that it was normal.
Wow. I had no idea, I thought everyone sees things when you close your eyes.
I can only see things in my mind if I really concentrate, and even then it's usually just composites of things I've seen before. My inner monologue, on the other hand, is the world's biggest chatterbox.
I'm one of them. I can envision something, but it has no details. That's how I know whether I fell asleep or not - if it looked real, I dreamt it.
Constant inner monologue here. Absolutely no images no matter how hard I try
hahahahahahaha!Hiw nmamy peopemcan actually SEE thing , or are they all saying that they can "Visualise". Whicu isincredibly difernt to actully SEEING
I would go insane if I could not fantasize myself to sleep at night.
As I was shopping with a friend, she was looking for bathroom tile, not sure what color, I gave her my idea, as I said I can imagine, the finished plan, she could not, I did not know everyone is unable to do this, is it a gift that I have ? ???
I didn't know this till a few years ago. I thought everyone could have an imagination. I wonder if when where kids we have it and than when some people get older it gradually goes away.
What are you suppose to see? A clear picture as a photo? 🤔 Naw, not that clear right? Right?
There's a whole spectrum from aphantasia to hyperphantasia. For most of us, it's not as clear as a photo or film, but for some, it is.
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I have an inner monologue, inner vision, inner music player and they're all playing at once, all the time.
I can't indeed. I can see vague flashes of details of faces and outlines and such, all in dark, monochrome. But nothing 'useful'. Which is incredibly frustrating because I have huge FOMO regarding that :D.
Oh, dear God, please tell me how to get rid of my interior monologue. It's been driving me nuts for years.
Oh, dear God, how do I get rid of my interior monologue? It's been driving me crazy for years.
Oh, dear God, how do I get rid of my interior monologue? It's been driving me nuts for 69 years.
I always wondered what people meant when they said they see a film in their head. Like how? I can only see looms. Very dusty looms.
That is... sad 😥 I would hate not being able to use my imagination
I can't. I figured it out when doing a guided meditation at about 14. I could NOT visualize this ocean scene. I mean I can imagine... Just not in pictures
Imagination is great. My son can communicate in pictures instead of words to me at times......I did this with him since he was little. He's almost 40 now.... You can talk to animals the same way. They communicate in pictures. I talk to animals all the time.... and no, I did not make this up either...it's true. Try it.....
I don't need to close my eyes to see things with my imagination. There are people who have to close their eyes to daydream?
Wow... and I thought that my 24/7/365 inner dialogue/monologue and films are SO normal... TIL a lot...
What? No, this can't be true. I just can't fathom that. I would be so screwed. This is how I fall asleep. I have several different fantasies that put me to sleep. Being on a deserted beach in a hammock with the sounds of the ocean, being at an empty water park on a lazy river, or being at an indoor tropical resort-style pool with a fire pit. Notice a theme? LOL
I have this. Genuinely no sound, no images, just pure switch off nothingness unless I try. My sister recently pointed out I remember things with feelings whereas she has mental images of memories. Never knew it wasn’t normal 🤷🏻♀️
Genuinely curious... How do you form memories? Like could you go to a party and afterwards describe what it looked like and who was there?
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This has always facilitated me. I can visualise walking around places I have been like my grandparents house 30 years ago or my old school. I don't understand how memories fully work if you can't visualise it.
it is called aphantaisia and I have this I always was so confused when teachers told me t take a mental picture because I never saw anything in my head
That sounds so sad... But also relaxing when you are trying to go to bed.
Is there a genetic reason? Or is there some evolutionary advantage/disadvantage to being able to see things with your imagination? Maybe if you could see, in your minds eye, what would happen to you if you poked that sabre toothed tiger with a stick, you wouldn’t do it and would live to see another day.
Hmmmn I have this and am conscious so I would know the outcome of poking the sabre toothed tiger 🤷🏻♀️ Not sure that not being able to visualise things means your stupid 😂
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When you say "see", do you mean that you can visualize a landscape filled w characters like real life? W the sun and birds? Or do you mean "picturing something in your mind"?
I like to write. I think thats why im partially an insomniac. I sometimes get inpseration put of no wear and close my eyes to see it in my minds eye. It qlso happens when im just do8ng normal vrap like cleaning or reading .then i get pissed at myself it the idea or thought isnt going how i want it....i think i need consulting. -.
I can think up an extremely detailed cardboard suit of armor when I’m bored
I have both an inner monologue and I see things... is this not the same for everyone??
My brain hurts imagining this. How can this be? What must that reality be like? Can they day dream? Do they think, and in what manner. My brain is constantly plagued by stray images and inner monologues. This almost sounds Zen, except you're stuck.
My daydreams are inner monologues and imaginary feelings -no pictures. Do we think? Um, Yeah, of course we flipping well do!! we are normal, well-educated, funny, interesting people doing normal jobs: we arent brain damaged! Its not zen though. There may not be pictures,but we do have *thoughts*!! It's far preferable to constant hallucinations and seeing things that aren't even there, IMHO.
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I have/do both, and I wish everyone could experience it at least once.
I can't see it but i visualise it in a different way so i question whether I can. Idk if that's normal
Doesn't impact dreams. Dreams are controlled by a different part of the brain.
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Just curious, why? I don't feel like I am missing out, and like I stated, I didn't even realize it until I was 34.
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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 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.
Note: this post originally had 46 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
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.
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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.
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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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