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
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.
There's no housing shortage, there's only a shortage of homes payable with average income. There are more than enough luxus-homes. -.-
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I'm assuming "this country" is the US, but honestly it's not different in the UK, where there's over 600,000 vacant homes and an approximate of 227,000 people sleeping rough/in cars etc...
I cannot comment on empty homes in the US or Uk or the number of homeless,but in Lisbon,Portugal the Townhall is the biggest landlord in the country with over 100.000 vacant homes....But,the majority are in urgent need of restoring,total ruins or in imminent danger of collapse.Yes 100.000+ but the state do not have the nescessary funds to right this wrong.Occationally something will be sold in order to improve already occupied council flats/houses,but more often than not bought by investors who then restore and make them into luxury flats.Don´t ask me why,but luxury sell like hot bread.
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This is capitalism. There is no reason to do anything unless it makes money. There is no money to be made off the poor or homeless, thus they are ignored. Unless you are an ATM for someone, you are worthless.
A profit is what capitalism is about and absolutely not with the Chinese or Soviet style 'state run capitalist systems'. The most obscene profit driven process is food production followed closely by shelter. Capitalisms replacement is 100 years long overdue. Speed the day.
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And they are all being bought up by corporations like Tricon Residential so they can then rent them out to you, so you wind up having to work for the rest of your life. Home ownership in the USA is gone (or only something for the wealthy).
Jarrod Khusners family similarly and also buy up rundown commercial blocks and renovate them to just below sub-standard before renting. Incidentally the US has the highest number of tent and trailer sales in the world. Ive never seen anything like it in my long life, In all the cities, on the sides of back streets, rows and rows of tents. The humanity of it all in the land of plenty
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Overcrowded and substandard housing doesn't make sense either. Everyone deserves to live in a decent safe home.
There is an AFFORDABLE housing shortage.... ACTUALLY there is a properly paying JOB shortage because there is a CEOs who are paid 10000 times the average worker OVERAGE.
There is no job shortage- come on! There's just a shortage of workers to work at low jobs as a step up to other jobs through education, and sacrifices. (Living without the latest income grabbers: expensive latest to come out stuff, drugs, alcohol, tattoos, take-out... all this stuff wastes money and could be done without in order to make a future better life possible. Hate to get on and stay on my soapbox people, but it frustrates me to see so many people with signs of wealth who complain about their lack of things that come with hard work, sacrifice and education. I'm a teacher who came up with NOTHING but went through a whole lot of what I'm proposing to end up with something. don't get me started on garbage like I got it all because I was whiten
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The ones who have been helped with getting housing either lose it to having their other homeless friends over or spend their time at shelters because of said homeless friends. None of you have ever been homeless and yet you talk like your experts on the subject. Ive spent 12 years working with and around homeless people.
I was homeless at one time. I was miserable but didn't blame anyone. I figured it was my problem so I worked on fixing it's. Key word 'worked'. Worked at getting an education (even in high school folks!) and worked hard at each job I had so I could get to the next level job. Yes, some of those jobs sucked! Clean any toilets in gas stations lately? But I went from homeless to homeowner in one lifetime with no government programs involved. I thank God for this country's many opportunities:
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Why don’t we seize every property bought by Russian oligarchs, not to occupy, but to use for money laundering, and house refugees in some, asylum seekers in some, and homeless people in some? The rest can be broken up into very affordable apartments for the working—-you read it right, WORKING homeless. Solves many problems at once, housing for vulnerable and deserving groups, and cuts the conduits for a load of money laundering.
The problem is that without an address, you can’t get the job, without the job you can’t get the address. Not to mention that while people know there are homeless people that we know exist, but would rather not see them. To fix this means to openly and honestly do more than acknowledge the problem, it’s to openly and honestly participate in fixing the issue. The shortage isn’t housing, the shortage is the desire to actively do something more than handing someone spare change it’s the courage to keep going to city counsel meetings and keep the topic and conversation going.
Malls! So many empty malls! At least where I live. I've always wondered why they couldn't be converted into housing.
I've lived in my car while I had breast cancer and been living in a shed since Oct 21. From 75 to 77 yrs old
I am in agreement that our country does not take care of its elderly very well. So many of our government programs are devoted to people who really should be taking care of themselves. Money that goes to people who could support themselves is not available to elderly who need it. I at least partially blame this on the fact that politicians listen to those groups who vote and not those unable to get out and vote. Squeaky wheel gets the grease and your average elderly and needy American doesn't do enough squeaking. We need to do the squeaking for them and should be ashamed of ourselves if we don't.
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Maybe the empty homes are not in the same locale as those who need homes. Maybe the homeless are in large cities where they receive assistance and the empty homes are in some red state where little funds are set aside to help the homeless.
And they are all currently for sale, each has 30 offers over asking, and no roof.
Empty homes, but what price range, there should be a way, there should be NO homeless people, some people have more money, than they actually need, put them together, and donate some, help the people in need, be kind, spread the love, life is toooo short !!!
And many of these people are veterans who worked hard to own a home, then left their homes and fought so we could keep OUR homes. Turns out liberty and justice for all is not, in fact, for all.
Worse fact is about 20 out of every 28 of those homes are derelict and unlivable. There are so many abandoned houses and towns in the US it's absurd.
If that is the case then why aren't those homeless given shelter in those homes?
There's one I pass all the time that's been vacant over 20 years. It's beautiful too. For some stupid reason every so often the owner starts working on it, then stops about halfway and the place begins to fall apart again for a couple years, then do it again. It's pointless. Sell it ffs! I'm hoping the council will slap em with a compulsory purchase order and have it lived in again.
In the 1970s in a cost saving measure the United States Department of Health (now called Health and Human Services) closed down over 1100 asylums for the mentally challenged. Before that time, mentally disabled homeless people would be brought to a center for treatment. Homelessness before the closure was only a minor problem isolated to the larger cities.
In what country? US no doubt since most Americans think the whole world is about them
nice data point but there is a lack of correlation between the location of these homes and the locations in which these homeless people are and in most cases, they have no desire to move. You can't just ship homeless people to wherever homes are available.
Where are the houses located, do homeless want a home? pay taxes. get a job.
How many of all these "homes" is actually habitable by human beings. There are actual legal and physical limitations in useability.
What also is confounding is the amount of retail space that is vacant! Look at strip malls, abandoned schools even!
it's not 28 empty homes but 28 empty rooms (if we read the same reports). That makes it a very different statistic.
Its the paying for the houses that is the problem. Whose going to pay for them to "keep" house? Will they get a job? Will they mow? Or will they rip out all the copper to sell?
Indeed. Here's a quote from the article Tiny House Villages in Seattle Growing Source of Frustration for Some Neighbors: “ The camps look great for about the first six months when the paint is new," he said. "Then things start to look pretty trashy." Link: https://komonews.com/news/project-seattle/tiny-house-villages-in-seattle-growing-source-of-frustration-for-some-neighbors
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There was an experiment here, where they gave homeless people 10.000$, no strings attached and provided them with intensive counseling to get them back om track. Not a single one of them was living in a house after a year. They all squandered the 10k. The problem of homelessness is not a lack of homes.
I'm assuming that figure is 'Habitable' homes? I'd expected it to be a lot higher.
I heard recently the average rent in the Boston, MA area was over $3000/month. I literally cannot conceive of this. You can buy a house and the mortgage will be less. (I know; the down payment is the issue)
The reason they aren't living in those houses is because houses are being used to make money. However, the reason so many houses were built in the first place was to make money. You could say we should put the homeless in those houses, but then we would be removing the incentive to make those houses in the first place. Which could be worse long-term
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.
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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.
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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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