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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.
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.
Her observation about airplane wings and the side fins of fish are why jets wings angle back the way they do.
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Her backstory (her early life) was incredible also - her escape to Paris then England then America from her Nazi armaments magnate husband and almost instant stardom (having already been a star in Czechoslovakia and Austria) was the stuff of novellas. What a life! What a woman!
She was also a spy. Men talked about engineering and maths asuming she didn't understand anything but she took notes and tell...
Seems easier to be a spy as a woman because most men don't pay attention to you other than your looks! Sad but convenient
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That's like spending life behind glass wall and noone can hear you. I'm sorry for that, but we know it now and we do our best not to forget.
Everyone knew who she was and one day she wanted to raise money for the war but was told she couldn't do anything. So instead of doing nothing she went to the streets and set up a stand that had men come up and pay for a kiss from her. She raised 25 million dollars in todays money.
How sad it is that looks are so important to some. That's not what defines a person!!
She also helped develop the proximity fuse for anti aircraft ammunition helping prevent suicide attacks from reaching their targets.
Lamarr was famous, which is how we know about this. Imagine how many other people could have made huge contributions to society, but were prevented from doing so by other peoples' prejudices.
Women are cursed if they aren't beautiful, and cursed if they are. Thanks a lot, patriarchy.
Never be born a woman if you're looking for credit in this world.
Don't blame "people". Blame the rich white men who control our society to this day.
Rich white men aren't people? So you are poor AND racist AND sexist. I bet you still think you're the virtuous one.
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Why the negative spin, weird-facts? Lamarr got the patent; she wasn't readily recognized because she, herself, hid her identity as inventor by using her married name, not her screen name/maiden name. She told Howard Hughes to use back-swept wings, and he gave her an entire team of scientists and engineers at her disposal, but she loved acting, too.
At that time, they also wouldn't have noticed her brain if she had been ugly. She was female. Nooen will ever know how much ideas and billiance we missed because someone was female, poc or poor.
Brains and Beauty! I've been a fan of Ms. Lamar for a very long time. When my kid studied her last year (during the pandemic when she only had 2 hours of school online), we made a killer project on Hedy. Needless to say my kid got an A+ and at 9yo, she too is a fan!
I like this picture because you can really see her character and intelligence: hedy_home-...x288-1.jpg 
I knew this fact. She was a very smart woman and unfortunately men tend to get ignore such gifts. I'm glad not all men do!
The larger picture is that a genius mathematician was forced to make a living as a bimbo. What percentage of university mathematics professors are women today?
No offense, Phill Healy, but kind of strange they're speaking of a WOMAN who's invention was brushed off because she WAS an attractive woman, and you go off about a man that invented the same thing. Guess that's proof that we haven't made much progress all these years later.
Isn't it the same today? My sister and I run a successful business and she is the boss. She taught me everything I know about the business because she has a decade of experience ahead of me. Anyway, male clients always ignore her and start talking to me even though she clearly starts the conversation confidently, knowledgeably, and professionally. No, the morons prefer a male who probably doesn't know enough about the subject 🤢
History is littered with geniuses who weren't understood to be geniuses until after their death. That's how far thinking true intellect is. People of their own time couldn't get it.
She begged directors to cast her as something more than a vapid/boring socialite, but they rarely listened.
I suspect there are many women experiencing the same feelings.... attitudes towards women are unfortunately too often formed by all the "be beautiful, be sexy, be anything but smart" messages received from childhood on....
This is the curse of great beauty. People think that you're looks are all you have to offer. Don't get me wrong, life is easier but greatness is harder. The only way that I have found to navigate around this is to be extremely funny so that people know you are more than just your looks.
I was very pretty in my youth. I am also very smart. People tended to treat me like it was some kind of fun trick; like one of those horses that can count at the circus. It was nice being beautiful, I won't lie, but it was also really frustrating because people didn't seem to want or expect anything else out of you. I'm 50 now, and had a stroke that left me with damage to my speech and memory as well as a few other areas. I'm learning to adapt but I miss the way my brain worked much more than the way I used to look.
Meanwhile today I see articles of women saying “I’m to pretty for college”. (No seriously)
I think she was in the book Brazen: Rebel ladies who rocked the world. (If you havent read it, you should. So much representation!)
Das ist doch meistens so, Männer klauen Frauen die Ideen und die Kerle stehen dann in den Geschichtsbüchern..während Frauen ihre Socken waschen dürfen, kotz.
The story of Jimmy Winkfield makes this believable. Horse and rider are truly Inseparable.
It’s sad how many truly gifted people have to die before their work is appreciated
Well it seems someone noticed. That's a good thing to be recognized as the original after all the "others" tried to claim her stuff. Not great but good.
When I die, don't remember me by my looks, my popularity, or anything else. Remember me by how I changed the world.
Hedy Lamarr WAS recognized in her lifetime - Howard Hughes put his team of scientists and engineers at her disposal, saying they would do or make anything she asked for. She and her colleague won awards for their achievements.
No, it wasn't brushed off, it was developed by others, and her brains were certainly noticed. The rest is correct.
I read about this when I was crew on a cruise ship.learning to be a second mate. Absolutely awesome. I guess it shows that competence is "across the boards". Get good at one thing, you can be good at anything. And Hedy was definitely good at everything!
They can't get past a beautiful face so so SAD. Me I would have found a ugly person 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
How far behind has the world fallen, how great are it's losses, that it has brushed aside miracles out of jealousy and scorn for its source.
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Yes, sadly they cared more that she was the first actress to fake an orgasm on cam.
"The Only Woman in the Room" is a fiction that dramatizes her life very well
Her idea was not brushed off. It was used by the Allied forces to defeat the Nazis.
Um, the picture on the right is Vivian Leigh. I know, they look similar but the one way you can tell the difference is their eyes.
Though I'm not at this level I feel her pain. I'm pretty good at what I do. But I also look younger than my age no matter how I dressed. So most of the time, my ideas weren't taken seriously no matter how well I articulate them. The only way I moved forward is picking up tasks no one has the gall or ability to pull off. Looking back, I did step on a lot of toes doing that and rocked the mediocre boat. But damn it was worth it for a toothless feminine "boy".
Her brain makes her beautiful to me but she is very pretty. I'll also be honest that would intimate me
No offence, but there are at least 1000 women i can think of better looking than her. She is just very ordinary looking.
Pretty sure she used her looks to get lots of things and go lots of places.
If a woman is beautiful and has a job because of her beauty - they are not very bright - there were a lot of stars who were brilliant maybe not in technology but in other areas of life (I don't mean their acting)!
When you present your main focus as beauty and especially considering how Old Hollywood treated women, Hedy Lemarr should have known the only way to be treated respectfully would have been to cultivate friends in the Scientific Community. she didn't do that, not surprised they didn't listen. Not saying it was right, just it is what it is for that time in history.
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!
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#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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