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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.
imagine just casually scuba diving and seeing a f*****g cow just swimming by
Imagine just casually swimming and mooing in an island that you thought you are alone and a f*****g scuba diver comes
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I'm so happy to have beef alternatives that have allowed me to give up beef altogether.
I hear ya. It's disgraceful the way cattle are treated at the slaughter house.
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You get what you f*****g deserve(telling to the person who broke his arm)
yeah I'd have to agree; that guy probably wasn't working at a slaughterhouse because he loves killing cows all day, people need money to survive.
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It's still quite sad she is all alone. Cows are social beings and need others for company and interactions.
Tragic that it was so traumatised that this happened. Cows need to be in herds, so I hope some more are shipped over to keep her company
Awww, I wish some more moo cows would come to the alley, cows don't like being alone. https://faunafacts.com/cows/do-cows-get-lonely-and-bored/ "Cows absolutely get lonely, bored, and stressed if they are separated from their herd or don’t have adequate enrichment to keep them occupied during the day."
And every morning she wakes up, stretches and says "wow what a view."
I read about that story. The slaughter house people were told to sedate her before taking her in because she was very sensitive. But they forgot. As soon as she caught the scent of the slaughterhouse she bolted. Swam to this island. They went after her, but she attacked anyone trying to get on the island. So she was granted amnesty and a law was passed saying that she could live on that island undisturbed.
In 1987 in Iceland a cow named Harpa (changed to Sæunn after this) escaped from slaughtering and swam across a fjord. When she came to the other side she was saved by a farmer who took her in. She became famous and spent the rest of her life on the farm. The family even wrote a childrens book about her.
https://www.treehugger.com/cow-escapes-slaughter-island-poland-4861298 Sadly she passed away while being rescued
See Okja and you will never see any kind of produced meat on your plate again. Okja is a fantasy figure, but the procedures are not. All over the Net anyone can read and see that animals feel, think, react to us. It is high time we look at animals as friends and creatures with just the same - if not more - value as us. And that we finally realize and admit we are animals too. Nothing more.
Being a heard animal it is crueuel to reward such bravery with isolation. Surely someone can make sure she has a couple goats or a couple of other similar aged cows to graze along side.
That will to live should make her live. start a new life and she has all the grass to herself
And people think animals aren’t terrified and depressed waiting to die to become food that people don’t even need
But wait, they told me animals don't have feelings and/or emotions. Further that they don't have brains. If that were the case why would she bother escaping? People are just so wrong sometimes.
Strong will to live. She needs a couple of friends though they are herd animals. Also, a lama to protect them.
I rescue and rehab animals in my community. This fills me with tears af happiness, sadness, and a bitter taste thinking about all the bs we as humans do bringing harm and devastation to all living things. Even each other.
Shes alone, so odds are she isn’t lactating, since there’s no bulls (or dairy farmers) around to get her pregnant.
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This is so sad. I bet most of the people liking this post still eat animals though. :(
The most ensoiring thing ever and so sad hope they don’t ever fond her and she maybe safe
I wish someone would take at least one other cow to live with her since cows are herd animals.
Cute, but sad cows should never live alone. (they get severe depression)
The poor thing must feel solo ely though. Cows are made to be in herds
That's a girl who knows what she wants and stops at nothing to get it!!!:
Actually sad though. You would think someone would put more cows with her or at least a male
good for you girl, you made your point you wanted to live and no one was going to stop you, have a great life on your island love cows and their milk
They should bring another cow from a sanctuary to live with her or bring her to the sanctuary. She must be lonely.
That's so sad. She felt what was going to happen to her. OMG I want to cry
It make me wish I could give her some friends. Cows are happier with a herd.
Alone, with several other cows seen grazing behind her, of course 🙄
The cow is considered a winner but vaccine refusers are considered a threat even though the medical science falls completely against the death jabs.
Sounds udderly far-fetched but it would make a good short film subject
I hate to tell you but if you read one of the comments above she passed away while being rescued from the island
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Hey actually cows are my absolute favorite animal and this is just so cool. I'm obsessed 😍
Unfortunately, it is impossible for cows to swim because the lack of a sphincter muscle causes the cow to literally fill up with water
She knew, they all knew, she ran letting failure and death be damned. Like the SMART cow, the Jews knew abd some also some ran. They should study the cows brain and pass it on whar they learn to Republican voters who watch FOX NEWS.
Mooooove over, Bruce Lee. I mooooove people with my cool acts, unlike the mooooonstrosity I'm looking at right now. - That Cow
We will fight for bovine freedom And hold our large heads high We will run free with the Buffalo, or die Cows with guns
I'd break a man's arm if he tried to stop me from libing on an island ALONE too!
She is precious-so glad she can live out her life in peace. I wish all animals could. Go vegan now.
There's another cow laying on the ground right behind her to the right.
it is sad she lives alone since they are very social animals. it'd be nice if some how they could bring her a few friends
Someone ought to bring her another cow for company...living alone is lonely...
THIS IS EGXACTLY WHY WE SHOULD NOT EVEN TRY TO SLAUGHTER THE PRECIOUS LITTLE ANGELS. I know a lot of people wanna argue with this, but cows can obviously get out of any situation.
I used to live 5 miles from a slaughterhouse, on the other side of a forest tract. At least once a year a cow would escape from the chutes leading to certain death, and invariably they would end up in or going through our yard. How they got there we had no idea. But at least they tried. Unfortunately men on horses know this about the cows, and rather than chase them, they would ride to our house and wait. The recapture would never take long. They never went home empty-handed. But as a boy of 10 of less, I came to appreciate that cows wanted to be free, just like me. Now I believe all living beings are equal, partly because of having watched those cows. Humans are not the top of the evolutionary ladder.
We will fight for bovine freeedom, and hold are large heads high/ We will roam free like the buffalo or dieyieyie! Cow Done Swum!
That's a not really a happy ending for a herd animal. I hope someone rescued her to live with other cows
Wonder where this happened!?🧐 Just so glad you made it to freedom, mama gurl!! ♥️♥️♥️✨♥️✨🙏🏼
https://www.treehugger.com/cow-escapes-slaughter-island-poland-4861298
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That somehow reminds me to the story of Memorias de una vaca...
I wonder what Ye would say about this. What a Badass Cow though!😆😁😁😁💯
One cow does this, that cow is a symbol of independence & strength. If 10 million cows did the same, we would curse them, locate them, and kill them all...with malice
Can we like... bring her a friend? Aren't cows like super social animals!? Maybe she needs a buddy? This is awesome though.
She’s amazing. I really love her sense of independence, and her determination to be free. Animals are sentient beings. We need to be kinder to them.
Sweet story but is it really true? Find it hard to believe a cow could outrun a farmer with a truck
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Sadly, they caught her and brought back to the mainland where she died of a heart attack while still on the truck. 🥺 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cow-escape-poland-island-dies_n_5a9195b2e4b01e9e56bc3b05
I can’t believe it after everything she went through . this is really sad , she maybe got so worked up because she thought she was going back to the slaughter house:(
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Oh, alas… 😢 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cow-escape-poland-island-dies_n_5a9195b2e4b01e9e56bc3b05/amp
I have seen cows happily run thru a wall made of 2" solid wood. It did slow the cow down for maybe 2 seconds, though. Thing is, a cow is half a tonne of moving animal. They only stay in place because they do not understand höw strong they are. The ones who get their own size and strenght - they only stay where they are because they want to.
How do they know about the part about "she swam to an island where she lives alone"? Research done by the Northampton University indicates that cows have “best friends" so it is quite sad that she is the only cow there.
Bossy! We found you! (Trust me, we had that cow... *shiver* Do not mess with that cow..)
I side with the cow, but honestly, I think this is BS. Some people will believe anything.
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Good for her. Anyone who doesn't believe other animals (because we are all animals) aren't intelligent sentient beings, is too close minded
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.
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!!
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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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