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50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective
I don’t know about you, Pandas, but cool facts are like Pringles to me: once you have one, then you want another, and soon enough you just can’t stop yourself from having more and more. And I’m not the only one with an appetite for learning new things!
A whopping 1.2 million people follow the ‘Weird Facts’ Instagram page and they can’t get enough of the tantalizing trivia it shares on their social media feeds. We’ve collected some of the most interesting history and science facts shared by the page for you to enjoy as well, dear Readers, so have a scroll down and upvote the ones that you found interesting and surprising.
Did any of these facts change how you view the world? Did you by any chance know every single fact in this article? Do you have any cool trivia to share with all the other Pandas? You can share your thoughts, feelings, and opinions in the comment section. Ready to learn some awesome stuff? Let’s go!
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The ‘Weird Facts’ Instagram project eventually grew so large that its founder decided to branch out and create a trivia learning app. There are over 900 random, interesting, and genuine facts that you can learn and then wow your friends and family over dinner with. Some trivia might sound strange, true, but it’s all been double and triple-checked by ‘Weird Facts.’
Bored Panda has analyzed the topics of media literacy and how we can distinguish between true and false facts in quite a lot of detail before. Last week, I spoke to Steven Wooding, who is a member of the Institute of Physics in the United Kingdom, who elaborated on what kind of mindset a true, curious, impartial scientist ought to have.
"Scientists have to be curious about how the world works and persistent in their work, as it may take years for it to pay off. Creativity to imagine what might be possible and attention to detail to gain knowledge are also very important," Steven told Bored Panda during an interview.
"We have to be open-minded to new facts and let data guide the way, rather than just what we think. On the other hand, we should also be critical of data. One experiment doesn’t make a fact. A fact comes from experiments that can be repeated and verified many times over."
According to the researcher, the advent of internet newsfeeds and platforms like TikTok and Twitter has shortened our attention spans. As a result, we tend to have a lower tolerance for long-form content that requires more focus and energy from us.
This is wholesome for the father and daughter. But it's sad on so many levels. Not only is this discrimination against single and gay parents, but they are also treating disabled children with so much disregard. I'm happy for the father, but there is so much to ponder about here.
"If you feel you are time-pressured, it’s probably only natural that you don’t want to invest a chunk of time on one article but instead scan the headlines to get lots of little bits of information. I have certainly noticed myself being less likely to read a long article unless it’s something that genuinely interests me," he said that on the one hand, we’re saving time, but on the other hand, we’re staying at a very superficial level of information.
"The negative impact is that we won’t reach a deeper level of understanding of something and end up missing out. This is ironic, as people today rush around trying not to miss out on things," Steven told Bored Panda.
Forget just letting him off the hook - he deserves a goddamn medal for that.
"It’s essential to have a growth mindset and realize that you probably know very little. We can only gain more profound knowledge of the world by investing time in exploring it. This issue goes back to short attention spans, which gives us a broad, but shallow spread of knowledge. Take the time to read a book on a subject, and you are bound to learn more," the expert gave some advice, urging everyone to build their patience for content that isn’t just bite-sized.
This is amazing. But also I hate mom-events and dad-events at school so so so much. It's almost 2022 and schools are really still assuming that every kid has a mom and a dad? Wtf? As a single mom I'm extremely fortunate that my kid has the best godparents in the whole world and her godfather has gone to many daddy-daughter events with her. But there are kids who are excluded from these events all the time and it breaks my heart.
It's also unfair to people who have two of one parent. They have two parents, its just two moms, or two dads, or what if one of their parents is non-binary? I agree with you completely.
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Breakfast with Dads -> Breakfast with Family. Problem solved.
I'm so sorry to be a bit negative about this as I also lost my father at a young age. The intention is wonderful and I don't know how the event was managed but such an invitation also gives the pedophiles and narcissists an opportunity to find their way into vulnerable families.
This teared me up a bit. My husband passed when my daughter was young. This is so wholesome! Thanks to the "Dads".
I'm so sorry. I cannot imagine how difficult that had to be.
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I LOVE this story so much, but also feel sad that the school only realized after setting up the event. Schools and orgs the world over - NOT EVERYONE COMES FROM A "TRADITIONAL" FAMILY SET-UP. STOP REQUIRING A "DAD" OR A "MOM" - FOR SOME PEOPLE IT'S A GRANDPARENT, OR THEY HAVE TWO DADS, OR WHATEVER. OPEN EVENTS TO ANY ADULT WHO CARES FOR THE CHILD.
Let’s go to the comments and I’m not disappointed. Y’all are pretty amusing. Give this school some credit y’all, I’m sure they didn’t allow that prison bus if rapists and murderers in. Or at least didn’t let the kids go back with them. Sheesh. Maybe their was a kid or two that was actually helped for once in a way you will never see. Maybe a couple of them were grateful for seeing that someone does care. I wonder how many positive impacts this had on those children. What if there were no negative impacts OMG the horror of that. What if this saved the life of a child that was feeling alone and unloved and uncared for. I’m just saying not all strangers or men have the intentions y’all think every man does. And yes I’m speaking from experience. A stranger, a man, a great man at that stepped up in my life and I will forever honor the role model he was. And he stayed that way until his death. Forever changed my life. RIP Raymond.
YES ... hundreds of these men have a lot to be commended for ... but I GUARANTEE you (based on STATISTICS alone!) ... there are several amongst them ... who are likely NOT there because of the goodness of their hearts!
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Wish every community thought that way. My daughter was excluded from Girl scout events because of not having a Dad. After they flat out told me that an uncle or grandfather was not allowed to go with her to a dance and she just wasn't invited we quit that troop.
this brought tears to my eyes, for some reason. Maybe because I grew up without a father... but it's true, heroes are everywhere.
Agh, it reminds me of all the Daddy/Daughter dances my daughter's school would do, oblivious to the fact that her dad was dead, and that there were plenty of other little girls who didn't have a father in their lives. I petitioned them to do a adult/child dance, to be more inclusive of single parent and foster families, but they weren't willing to break there special tradition.
I don't mean to be negative but I also grew up with my mom. How can a stranger become father figure just because he volunteers? Personally it would not mean a thing to me as a kid , I would prefer my mom there who raised me as father and mother together.
Most of those kids need a male role model. This shows them that you don't have to be a drug dealer or in prison.
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... and i'm almost certain not ONE of them is a bad person ... ugh!
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We used to have breakfast with grandparents day. I was lucky enough to have a great grandmother to come but not some other children. The 80's we're a lot less woke when it came to people's feelings
MEN, like the ones in this room, or have hearts like them, are freaking awesome!
yes ... so true ... because ALL of them are kind hearted ... and NOT ONE of them actually came to groom a vulnerable child who misses having a dad ... I live in Australia ... in an affluent suburb. I was recently privy to a birdseye view of the houses in my area where there was a child sex offender ... 1 in 15 houses. So no ... I don't think all 600 of these men were 'kind hearted' ...
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The one in the middle is my favorite. I just want a bear hug from that dude. This is one of my favorite things ever.
There was a similar story about a school that realised that some teens were lacking father figures, so a group of men came in each morning, greeting the kids, hugging them, giving them high-fives, and speaking affirmations to them. So pure.
Father figures are important to raise well adjusted, positive kids. I believe more so with boys. It is terrifying that so many did not have these pillars in their lives
When my son was in elementary school I was the only father to volunteer to chaperone school trips. I was smothered by small boys, especially in kindergarten, first and second grades. I would have one on my shoulders, two holding each hand and two more waiting a turn. Occasionally one would just cling and cry. I could NEVER understand why I was the only father that thought it important enough to spend the day with my child. The sad stories about the essentially fatherless kids whose dad's lived two miles from school broke my heart. Being divorced didn't seem like a good reason for child abandonment. These children were in emotional agony. I'm not ignorant of the fathers you don't want a child near or dads who don't want the child. I had one. But a classroom where 70% of the fathers are missing from their child's lives? Good for these men! The city should have given them a parade.
Aww🥰🥰🥰 if those kids fathers were like these dudes, imagine the possibilities!
I'm sure there are more than 600 pedophiles in Dallas. I hope the did background checks.
OMG, I do believe that I speak on behalf of women everywhere when I say I think my uterus just contracted there 😏
I hope some of the men have the time and means to continue to guide our young, fatherless young men AND women... But this is definitely a step in the right direction!!!
Wonderful to read about good people doing good deeds. There are too many awful news articles every day. We need a little good news every day!
Wow!!! I think that is the largest shortage in America •••Real Men that put their wives/girlfriends/SO’s & their children before themselves. And I realize that if they work everyday & bring their salaries home for the use & benefit of the family, that THAT is being selfless… but so many males don’t give of their TIME/AFFECTION to their families…it has an incredibly negative effect on children, especially male children. Get it together men or in the alternative, wrap it up!!
OMG this is so great they all wanted to be fathers I hope they all got to stay for the breakfast??
I thought, "sweet concept", initially ... but DANGEROUS as all hell. I mean seriously ... this is just INVITING 'groomers' ... putting children at risk ... NOT GOOD! Middle school kids without dads ... yah ... let's introduce strange men to small children who are deeply saddened by the fact that they don't have a father ...
This really touched my heart we need men like this to continue to step up in these young men's lives especially in today's society we need these men to show these young men how to be men otherwise they're going to be gay by default🥺
Here is this random guy, have breakfast together like he were your father.
I always go around saying I hate people, they make me lose faith. But stories like this really make my heart ache in a good way
We had events like this when I was in school, and my single mom always came to mom or dad events since my father was a deadbeat
I Love Love that all those Men showed up and cross the lines of age and race. My heart swells at this photo. We need to stop listening to the manipulators of our culture and remember this example as the overall truth of our American People.
I went to have lunch with my daughter on day and some kid in line said “where’s your dad huh? Because you don’t have one!” I almost started to break down when my daughter looked at him and said “ I don’t need one because my mom is the bomb diggity!” She smiled at me and we went and ate together. It still makes me tear up.
I want a good dad. I would rather have no dad than the one I have. He's the worst so I live with my mom. I want a dad who is there for me and so I love this post because they all just show up for these kids they don't even know ❤
Men are great. We just need to recognize that, even though some are not. The school did a good thing.
Needs to be done all of the time. Girls need a good male role model. Boys tend to be interested in Girls similar to positive female role models. Girls with boys like a good male role model in heterosexual people. Can't tell you with LGBTQ didn't mean to leave anyone out. Just speaking of my experience.
Good... I wish my daughter's dad was envolved her life. It's been sort of an epidemic lately... Is this just an American problem
Yeah, breakfast with dads or dances with dads is a really really bad idea and really discriminatory and ignorant and stupid. So incredibly hurtful.
This made me cry! I wish men in our communities would be so generous with their time and talents their are so many children in many schools who lack direction.
This too is still happening; the pandemic made things difficult, but the organization is adapting and still operating to try to help kids.
So great! I had 2 of the sorriest SOB's for "dad's" on the planet you could have ..glad to see things changing for the better,every child deserves loving and hands on parents..and a dad is so important!
What an awesome turn out for dads everywhere. 600 men that's quite a catch. May Jesus bless mankind with more men like them.
Awesome. In high school I was nominated for Homecoming Queen. It was decided that our fathers would drive donated convertibles with each girl waving as they circled the field at halftime. At the time I didn't even know where my father was living and had no clue wtf to do. As I hid in a bathroom stall crying a teacher walked in and very casually asked "Would it be OK with you if the principal drove your car?" How to go from suicide to euphoria in 5 seconds or less?! YOU GUYS MAY NEVER KNOW THE IMPACT YOU HAD BY SHOWING UP. THANK YOU.
Our children are suffering without fathers or honorable men to role model for them
600 men willing to show up to be "dads" every single one of them deserve a medal!
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Hopefully some of those dads will stay in those youngsters lives. My father left when I was 8. I missed a lot.
Now that's phenomenal! All those guys ready to make a difference for a student ❤️
Well, this made my heart swell, bless you all, boys need men in thier life !!!
Amazing how they feel the need to be a dad for a day just to fill in for kid with no dads. Applause
This literally has me crying. So beautiful, thank you awesome Dad's!
We do have the courage to do what is right. all these guys are hero's in there own way.
I want to shake the hands of ALL 600 MEN that showed up to be a father for a kid that wasn’t theirs. It takes a village. Standing ovation, gentlemen. Good job!!!
Imagine a 6 year old conducting interviews to choose a father figure out of a pool of candidates. "Listen, this is a very competitive position, and I have to be straight with you, you're going into this with a CV that is mediocre at best. Now sing Itsy Bitsy Spider and don't f**k it up."
The faces of these men (the ones that are in focus, anyway) are absolutely beautiful. God bless them always
That's called "stepping up"! Thank goodness for these caring gentlemen!
I hate that my mind instantly wondered how many of those men were there for the right reasons
That is the most amazing thing I've read in a long time. Well done!
This has been one of the greatest problems with society no father in the home has lead to the destruction of the family unit. Some cases the kids are better off but i am firm believer all children need 2 strong parents to raise them.
California needs to start replicating what Texas does. It's like all the Goodness in the nation is is Draining down to the Great state of Texas. Why? Because GOOD People are fed up with the lefts undying hypocrisies and endless lies.
I wonder how many of these don’t pay child support for their own kids?
Meanwhile, entertainment and pop culture expert Mike Sington from Hollywood explained to me that there’s a broad range of red flags we have to look out for that might indicate that a fact or a source might be unreliable.
"Red flags to watch out for that a claim may be fake: it's outlandish, it's too good to be true, you haven't seen the claim anywhere else, you've never heard the source, the source isn't reputable, you can't find two other sources making the same claim, your gut tells you, ‘this can't be true,'" Mike told shared with Bored Panda.
"The rise of social media has decreased the reliability of information because misinformation can spread so quickly before it can be corrected," the expert said that one basic thing we can do to check the reliability of a fact is… to start off with a simple and humble Google search. We should be on the lookout for additional sourcing and evidence. If we can’t find anything, we should remain skeptical.
"Do this and think before reposting or you may be contributing to the problem. Amplification doesn’t make a claim true or accurate," he said.
an article from oct. 2021 : “physical wounds were healing, but the (post-traumatic stress disorder) is manifesting itself more all the time.”. The most beautiful is his response after accepting shooter's apology : “I am not God to make the decision to kill him or not. That’s not my decision. My decision is to be a better person and to change the world for every kid. I don’t want this to happen to anybody again. It hurts. It hurts. It really hurts. So, I am just going to keep going. That’s it.”
Mike said that sources like Associated Press, Reuters, and The New York Times can be considered to be trustworthy. "They employ fact-checkers and editors that ensure the information they post is correct. They’re basically doing the research and homework for you. There are literally too many online sources to list that can’t be trusted and should be avoided. Anyone can basically post anything they want… proceed with caution," he told Bored Panda.
"Our attention spans have been reduced to mere seconds at a time because that’s the way information and entertainment is fed to us now. People get tiny bite-sized bits of news by scrolling a Twitter feed, they entertain themselves by scrolling quickly through Instagram and TikTok. It’s creating a habit that doesn’t have to be," he said.
Honesty is the best policy and pay off!!! So thankful for this lady's kindness to help make a change in this mans life. Very wholesome
"The good news is there’s plenty of long-form entertainment and news available, you just have to seek it out. I believe the benefit is worth it. I’ve discovered it improves your ability to focus, it’s more calming, you retain more information, and it gives you a more balanced and nuanced view of the world.”
Dangerous but good for one health as a result. Glad he was okay afterwards.
I read a novel once which opens with a pony getting stuck in the sand at the beach. The owner and her mother end up going "oh well, whatcha gonna do", shrugging and going home, leaving the poor thing to its fate! Then when they come back the next day and find out someone else has rescued the poor animal and taken it away they actually have the gall to be upset about it. I was so infuriated I stopped reading and never finished the book.
At the beginning of World War II, she and composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers. Although the US Navy did not adopt the technology until the 1960s, the principles of their work are incorporated into Bluetooth and GPS technology and are similar to methods used in legacy versions of CDMA and Wi-Fi.This work led to their induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.
Good for you Dad! Glad he recovered. The gun was a little much but...it saved his life.
Yet again, an amazing human. It's just sad that for every Bob Ross, we get 200 eejits.
Here is a list of people living in abject poverty before becoming famous Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Tiffany Haddish, Kat Graham, Chris Pratt, Annie Murphy, Amara La Negra, Chris Hemsworth, Chrissy Metz, Jennifer Lopez (who was homeless), Richard Madden, Ed Sheeran, etc etc etc. There are also people who became rich and/or famous and ended without a dime or roof over their heads
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This was very interesting! Such a good early morning read. Thanks for sharing!
Such beautiful stories give a fresh counter balance to regular news. Thank you :)
You did a great job, Jonas. The best comment was the from the person pointing out that the forest/woods weren't infested with bears and wolves, they lived there! I laughed out so loud I woke my baby up!!! So fact or fiction, it was an absolute good time for this insomniac! Thanks for that!
Hit some highs and lows for me emotionally. Great light read. Full of meaningfulness and life. Love bored panda!!
Gosh. I sure wish there was something called Fact Checking to make sure things you call facts are actually true. I wish there was SOME way to make sure before publishing a list of facts. Sigh. Oh well. Guess we'll all just have to keep assuming everything in print is true, eh?
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Reading these a second time, a lot of details seemed likely distorted or just plain BS. The first time, I bought in totally lol!
Thank u very much for including my God Eminem in this twice!!
#24 So... she didn't give the guy $4000 HERSELF but rather asked strangers to make her look good... yeah, great achievement~ 😕 #44 Haha isn't this playboy story depicts what's happening right now? Critical race theory, quotas for LGBT in different spheres (it's rather hypocritical for the community striving for equality to hire ppl/giveout subsidies based on their sexual orientation and not on their skills/financial situation). Being straight isn't cool the media tells us, and if you're white - you're de facto racist (even if you're a kid)~
As was mentioned in comments, I didn’t need to cry today. Or perhaps 🤔 I did.
You published this message that is completely FALSE : …Meanwhile, entertainment and pop culture expert Mike Sington from Hollywood explained to me that there’s a broad range of red flags we have to look out for that might indicate that a fact or a source might be unreliable."Red flags to watch out for that a claim may be fake: it's outlandish, it's too good to be true, you haven't seen the claim anywhere else, you've never heard the source, the source isn't reputable, you can't find two other sources making the same claim, your gut tells you, ‘this can't be true,'" Mike told shared with Bored Panda. Proven: The CIA admitted that US spies/diplomats aren't being attacked by foreign adversaries. "Havana Syndrome" is mass hysteria.Here are the top corporate media outlets that spread this bogus conspiracy theory, from the NYT to CNN, Fox to Guardian, AP to BBC:
I read about how our attentionspan has kind of shortened, and this morning on childrens tv channel I noticed the the "shows" are mostly less than 5 minutes long. Yesterday I was in school with 6 year olds. They were watching a movie for children and the teacher stopped it, and asked did they wanted a break or view the rest. They unanimously asked to view on without any break. It makes me think.
Totally love these types of reads .. I have adhd so little facts and different information totally kept me wanting to see what was the next fact info
The best entries are those that show how easy it is to do good to a fellow human being. Let the lesson not be lost.
This list is cool, but one thing that I've learned is that pictures with said events are not usually telling the whole story or/are completely false.
I find it interesting that the article talks about shortt attention span and shallow understanding of a topic while condensing factoids into the very thing the article criticizes.
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This was very interesting! Such a good early morning read. Thanks for sharing!
Such beautiful stories give a fresh counter balance to regular news. Thank you :)
You did a great job, Jonas. The best comment was the from the person pointing out that the forest/woods weren't infested with bears and wolves, they lived there! I laughed out so loud I woke my baby up!!! So fact or fiction, it was an absolute good time for this insomniac! Thanks for that!
Hit some highs and lows for me emotionally. Great light read. Full of meaningfulness and life. Love bored panda!!
Gosh. I sure wish there was something called Fact Checking to make sure things you call facts are actually true. I wish there was SOME way to make sure before publishing a list of facts. Sigh. Oh well. Guess we'll all just have to keep assuming everything in print is true, eh?
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Reading these a second time, a lot of details seemed likely distorted or just plain BS. The first time, I bought in totally lol!
Thank u very much for including my God Eminem in this twice!!
#24 So... she didn't give the guy $4000 HERSELF but rather asked strangers to make her look good... yeah, great achievement~ 😕 #44 Haha isn't this playboy story depicts what's happening right now? Critical race theory, quotas for LGBT in different spheres (it's rather hypocritical for the community striving for equality to hire ppl/giveout subsidies based on their sexual orientation and not on their skills/financial situation). Being straight isn't cool the media tells us, and if you're white - you're de facto racist (even if you're a kid)~
As was mentioned in comments, I didn’t need to cry today. Or perhaps 🤔 I did.
You published this message that is completely FALSE : …Meanwhile, entertainment and pop culture expert Mike Sington from Hollywood explained to me that there’s a broad range of red flags we have to look out for that might indicate that a fact or a source might be unreliable."Red flags to watch out for that a claim may be fake: it's outlandish, it's too good to be true, you haven't seen the claim anywhere else, you've never heard the source, the source isn't reputable, you can't find two other sources making the same claim, your gut tells you, ‘this can't be true,'" Mike told shared with Bored Panda. Proven: The CIA admitted that US spies/diplomats aren't being attacked by foreign adversaries. "Havana Syndrome" is mass hysteria.Here are the top corporate media outlets that spread this bogus conspiracy theory, from the NYT to CNN, Fox to Guardian, AP to BBC:
I read about how our attentionspan has kind of shortened, and this morning on childrens tv channel I noticed the the "shows" are mostly less than 5 minutes long. Yesterday I was in school with 6 year olds. They were watching a movie for children and the teacher stopped it, and asked did they wanted a break or view the rest. They unanimously asked to view on without any break. It makes me think.
Totally love these types of reads .. I have adhd so little facts and different information totally kept me wanting to see what was the next fact info
The best entries are those that show how easy it is to do good to a fellow human being. Let the lesson not be lost.
This list is cool, but one thing that I've learned is that pictures with said events are not usually telling the whole story or/are completely false.
I find it interesting that the article talks about shortt attention span and shallow understanding of a topic while condensing factoids into the very thing the article criticizes.
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