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Winter, and the holidays especially, is a great time for some trivia games with friends and family. We here at Bored Panda want to help you up your game at the brainiac gatherings this holiday season, so, we've compiled yet another set of interesting facts to whip out during a trivia evening.
These are coming to you courtesy of the "Undiscovered Facts" Instagram page. So, scroll down and find some intriguing, quick, but cool facts. Who knows, some of them might even surprise you; like how long it took the creators of the Oreo cookie to come up with its iconic design!
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There are a lot of interesting nuggets of knowledge on the 'Undiscovered Facts' Instagram, so, let's explore some of them more in-depth, shall we? Let's take the one about the top-secret Coca-Cola recipe. While it's hard to say whether there are really only two people in the world who know what the recipe is or if that's just a pop culture staple, the recipe still remains a secret to many.
The brand takes this secret very seriously. They proudly state that they've protected it for more than 130 years. But experts believe that it's impossible for only two people to know the recipe just because of the sheer amount of syrup that they make every day. In 2011, then Coca-Cola marketing manager Jacquie Wansley told ABC News: "Not a lot of people know. We don't know how many people know."
I'm one of those people who almost always wakes up before their alarm goes off. I always thought that it was because waking up at a certain hour just becomes a habit in my mind, but it might be that stress hormones wake us up.
Dr. Russell Foster, head of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute at the University of Oxford in Britain, told The New York Times that our eyes can detect light changes even when closed. This triggers an increase in cortisol and adrenocorticotropin, which help prepare us for activity.
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Tyranamar Suess 11 months ago
Poor Ukraine. Trump's going to come in and try to hand that country to his "friend" Vladimir. I really hope we've sent them enough supplies. And I hope we're draining Russia of resources everyday.
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Carilyn Beverly 11 months ago
Fun/happy times go by so much faster than hard/boring/bad times :(
Today, we refer to the finger we put a wedding band on as the 'ring finger.' But the belief that there's a vein that connects it straight to our hearts is only a myth from ancient cultures. Although it originated in Egypt, the Romans called the vein 'vena amoris,' the vein of love. Today, of course, we know that all blood veins go to the heart, but the truth doesn't make the sentiment any less romantic.
Facial cosmetic surgeon Dr. Julian De Silva declared Bella Hadid to be "the most beautiful woman in the world." That's according to the Greek ratio of Phi, a mathematical formula used to measure facial symmetry. Essentially, it means that Hadid's face is the closest to perfect symmetry there is. That's what De Silva discovered when he ran the model's face through a computer mapping program. Hadid's face was 94.35% close to 'the golden ratio.'
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Tyranamar Suess 11 months ago
So sad people don't know how to sit around a table and interact anymore. And they have to be bribed with discounts to do it.
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Katie Allen 11 months ago
at first I thought it was a guy with a picture of a bear on his jacket
Here's a New Year's resolution for you: how about challenging yourself to become ambidextrous? You might start with brushing your teeth with your non-dominant hand. That might increase your brain's neuroplasticity. It forces you to think about what you're doing. "Since you’re using the opposite hand, you’re using the opposite side of your brain, which can help strengthen that side," dentist Riddhi Gangolli, BDS, PhD explained.
Brazil's interesting law to reduce sentences for inmates for every book they read has some rules. The book limit for a year is 12 books, and only certain books qualify for the program. If an inmate reads 12 books in a year, they reduce their sentence by a month and a half. After they read a book, the prisoners have to write a short essay, detailing what caught their attention, such as a character, the language, or a theme.
The Instagram page also shares that we shouldn't be showering every day; it does more harm than good. And dermatologists actually agree: they say that, ideally, you should shower every two to three days. "You can actually make yourself more prone to infection if you over-wash because the skin is protected with some really nice natural bacteria and things that protect it and you want to preserve those," dermatological surgeon Dr. Mary Stevenson explained to Today.
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Riley Quinn 11 months ago
This occurred in 2021 China's Jiangsu province. The girl went missing, a couple found her on the side of the road and adopted her. The girl's mother, in turn, adopted a boy. The mother recognized the bride's birthmark and realized it was her daughter. But again, the son is adopted, so it's not a biological sibling relation.
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If you ever come to Japan, don't be surprised to see that people there don't use handwritten signatures like we do. Instead, they use stamps. There are three types of seals the Japanese use every day: Mitome-in, Ginko-in, and Jitsu-in. Mitome-in is an unofficial, unregistered stamp, used mostly when accepting deliveries and such. Ginko-in is for bank accounts, and the Jitsu-in is the official and the most important seal.
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Sky Render 11 months ago
It takes a lot less than 20 seconds under the right conditions! It's instant right after orgasm, the body's already in oxytocin production mode at that point.
In 2019, local fishermen came upon a deceased humpback whale in the Amazon rainforest. Experts explain that the high tide washed the baby whale's body into the forest. "During this season, the tide normally rises twice a day to almost 4 meters (13 feet) and floods the mangrove forest, bringing lots of trash, including trash from ships from a lot of places in the world," oceanographer Maura Sousa explained.
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Huddo's sister 11 months ago
That's the time I'm most likely to wake up and not get back to sleep for more than an hour, making it stressful on the night before work.
What were your favorite facts from this list, Pandas? Don't forget to let us know in the comments. And if you have a trivia night coming up or just want to scroll through some random but intriguing facts, be sure to visit our other listicles like this and this one!
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Sky Render 11 months ago
I can do that with any voice I'm even slightly familiar with. It's really not difficult.
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Warren Peece 11 months ago (edited)
Those also use inkan stamps. The ones shown in the photo are definitely hanko. https://living.rise-corp.tokyo/hanko-and-inkan-seals/
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Elladine DesIsles 11 months ago
And every time we watch a Harry Potter movie, or hundreds of others (Maggie Smith was the first recently-deceased actor to come to mind in this particular moment, followed by several other HP stars), we are watching and hearing dead people act. Every time we play a record by Frank Sinatra or Amy Winehouse or, again, hundreds of others, we are listening to a dead person sing. So what?
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Tyranamar Suess 11 months ago
Brain damage for who? The person who just woke me up and is now bonked in the head by me? Or for me, who can't think straight bc you've interrupted my sleep?
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Sky Render 11 months ago
And here I thought it took about 5 minutes. Step 1: look at Hydrox design. Step 2: copy wholesale.
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Karri Berkowitz 11 months ago
I think that depends on what you are doing everyday. Some people hurt my nose when they don't bathe everyday.
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Huddo's sister 11 months ago
Toothpaste and xylitol (artificial sweetener) also produce more saliva and are good for this. That's why dentists recommend people with dry mouths don't rinse after brushing their teeth (usually just at night). There are xylitol mouth sprays or gels (and chewing gum with it in) that are good for dry mouths during the day too. My medications and the fact I often have to breathe through my mouth give me a dry mouth. I tried using xylitol mouth spray, but I'm actually sensitive/allergic to it. I can chew two pieces of gum with it in in a day, but over that I get hives etc.
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LavenderHippoInAJar 11 months ago
I'm honestly impressed if half of these are true at this point
LavenderHippoInAJar 11 months ago
I'm honestly impressed if half of these are true at this point
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