“A Woman Once Found Her Ex-Boyfriend Living In Her Attic 12 Years After Breaking Up With Him”: 50 Weird Facts Shared On This Online Page (New Pics)
InterviewIt’s true that you learn something new every day. And with the help of the internet, it’s never been easier. It’s brimming with information on anything and everything, which is why most of us have no problem finding material about even the most niche of topics.
In addition to specific subjects, you can also find plenty of random facts that you didn’t even think you might be interested in. For instance, did you know that ‘Crab mentality’ got its name from actual crab behavior? Or that being exposed to music can influence the taste of aging cheese?
This and similar pieces of information can be found on the ‘Weird Facts’ Facebook page. We’ve gathered some of their most interesting and random facts on this list for you to get acquainted with. Ranging from surprising to shocking, and everything in between, they ought to be your ‘something new’ for today.
Bored Panda has reached out to the creator of ‘Weird Facts’ and they were kind enough to answer a few of our questions. You will find their thoughts in the text below.
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Up and running for nearly 10 years already, the Facebook page has garnered a fan base of over 6 million followers. Their posts, covering everything from natural phenomena to famous people, animal behavior and so much more, ensure that there’s a little bit of everything for everybody.
Sharing interesting information is what encouraged the founder of the page to start it. They told Bored Panda: “I love reading facts and interesting stories about people or things and I like to share these facts or stories with others. So for fun, I started this page, and now over 5m people follow us on Facebook and other social media sites.”
“We like to share mostly fun facts because they bring smiles to the reader,” the founder pointed out. However, they said that there’s other types of “useful and useless info” on their page as well. And indeed, some random facts might seem more useful when it comes to the day to day; however, that doesn’t make the rest of them any less interesting.
The creator believes that such information can benefit followers in numerous ways, as you never know when it might come in handy in real life. “These are also conversation starters between people,” they added.
You might be wondering, what drives our interest in such random facts? Or in seeking new information in general? The answers lie in the way our brain is wired.
Brain World Magazine pointed out that it’s the novelty of it all that makes us happy. Research on brain health and longevity revealed that facing new things, be it experiences, skills, knowledge, or anything else, is followed by a rush of dopamine—a chemical that’s known for making you feel good.
And it wasn't a train in service that derailed, it ran on a test track that day
According to Brain World Magazine, humans, like most mammals, instinctively prefer novelty as long as it doesn’t pose a threat of some sort. (And unless your computer is guarded by dragons, browsing random facts online sounds like a pretty safe thing to do.)
But over time, instinct alone became not enough; as our brain developed, we started analyzing the experiences and learning from them. And since new experiences made us feel good, so did learning about them.
Therefore, whether it’s reading a book with unexpected plot twists, learning about an interesting topic at school, or familiarizing yourself with random facts—it’s all novelty to our brain, which makes us somewhat happy.
So annoying when you get the companies saying how wonderfully 'environmental' they are and how 'green' they are and care about this that and the other and all the time there they are with product after product having planned obsolescence.
The Brain World Magazine article also pointed out that the way new experiences and information stimulate the brain affects our memory as well. While the ordinary days from your past might get lost in the haze, those that presented unexpected events seem clearer on memory lane.
According to Science Daily, it takes both the familiar and the unexpected to form the most memorable events. Based on psychology professor Dr. Sederberg’s insight, they arise when something rather unpredictable happens in a familiar context.
In an article for Psychology Today, Shahram Heshmat, an emeritus professor at the University of Illinois Springfield, emphasized that emotions play an important role here as well. He stated that emotionally charged events are remembered better than neutral ones and pointed out that “nothing focuses the mind like surprise”, coming back to the importance of novelty.
Both of these might add to the fact that we often remember a shocking thing we saw online last week better than what we had for lunch yesterday. And unsurprisingly, the internet is full of such astonishing, inspiring, heartbreaking, and in other ways emotionally charged news.
The ‘Weird Facts’ Facebook page is just a teeny tiny fraction of all the random information online. According to Statista, back in 2020, the total amount of created, captured, copied, and consumed data globally reached 64.2 zettabytes.
If you’re interested in how much a zettabyte actually is, it’s a thousand exabytes. If that’s of no help, it’s also equal to a billion terabytes, which equates to a trillion gigabytes.
No matter which way you look at it, it’s a humongous amount of data, which means you ought to find the information you’re looking for. Plus, something completely unrelated, yet likely not less interesting; maybe even shocking enough to stick in your long-term memory.
I've never heard of a study that didn't show positive results of a 4-day work week, but employers still don't want to do it.
Scientists have gone as far as analyzing how much of the 64.2 zettabytes a person’s brain processes on the day to day. The answer is roughly 74 GB per diem; and to make matters worse, the number is believed to grow by 5% each year.
The amount of data we process each day includes social media as well, which has the power to, over time, affect the structure of our brain. Houston Business Journal pointed out that it influences people’s social and emotional response, the capacity for attention and processing information, and, you guessed it right, memory. In addition to that, similarly to novelty, social media notifications also release dopamine, which makes people feel good and seek the feeling again.
Even though we can’t store nearly as much information as the internet does, some random facts stay in our heads nevertheless. And whether they come in handy at some point in life or not, the founder of ‘Weird Facts’ was right—they might be great conversation starters, at least.
If you’d like to see more of them, check out our previous post about the ‘Weird Facts’ Instagram account or browse this list that might pose the question ‘how the hell do people know that’?
Beethoven was such an assh*le, I love him. His brother, after buying some land, was so proud of himself he made himself business cards with his name and "Landowner" printed on them. Beethoven thought it was so stupid, he had business cards made for himself that said "brainowner."
Every ring tells a story, stories that ended sooner than they should’ve. So many people never got a chance to do what they wanted. Many love stories were destroyed, kids never got a chance to grow up, people never had a chance to start a family, get a better job or improve themselves. May all victims of the war rest in peace.
The most horrifying thing is: these were not even victims of war. They were victims of a sick ideology or whatever you might want to call it. I like to think of myself as a pacifist, but then again all these people ( probably more) would still have been killed if WWII had never happened, perhaps it would have been less if it had happened earlier. I say that as a German who is horrified that there are again politicians (elected into parliament!) in this country who consider "Hitler and the Nazis [...] just a speck of bird poop in more than 1,000 years of successful German history" (Alexander Gauland, June 2018)
Load More Replies...When you visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, you start at the top floor and work your way down. It becomes increasingly more dark and depressing as you descend. On either the third or the second floor (I don't remember which) there is a display with a very large bin full of used black shoes, all collected at the camps. I've been there twice, and that is the spot where I mentally have had enough. Both times my brain has said, "Enough." It is devastating to see what horrors humans can inflict on one another.
על החיים שאבדנו למעשים רעים - to the lives we have lost to evil deeds. As a person with (direct i.e grand uncle's parents )family that has been killed by the holocaust, and with a lot of knowledge about the atrocity, I have to say that it was the worst humanitarian autracity in the world before the cold war.
I know some will disagree, or try and say that "violence begets violence", but my grandparents on my non-biological dad's side lost most of their relatives to the Holocaust while both of the served in the United States Navy during WWII, so my opinion has always been "The only good Nazi, is a dead Nazi." This also applies to Neo-Nazis and anyone else who espouses support for White Supremacy, in any form.
I didn't lose anyone in the Holocaust and I feel the same way. ESPECIALLY those who try to deny it happened. I like to think there's a special place in Hell for them.
Load More Replies...Hey, BP Jewish people - Is there something in Judaism that defines what the wedding ring has to look like? I am in no way mocking or discounting the sadness this photo implies. But I've seen this photo before and I'm struck by how all the rings look the same. If you took the rings from a whole bunch of random Americans the rings would not have that level of 'sameness' (I don't expect anyway). My own wedding ring was a very plain gold band but that was just my personal preference because I'm not big on the feel of jewelry.
The wedding band is supposed to be a plain gold band. So religious people won't have stones on them. It also needs to be purchased by the groom for his bride.
Load More Replies...Imagine not only killing someone who had done nothing to deserve their untimely death, then stripping their rings off their fingers & the fillings out of their teeth just because you could. Remember this when you condemn others just because they are different.
So where are they now? Are they on display somewhere? Just curious. It would be difficult to figure out who they belong to, to return them. This is just sad.
I hope that the people who died here found themselves together again in death...........RIP
Though she went kind of nuts later in life, Victoria was a freaking b a d a s s. But I must note that she chose Frederick Douglass without his consent.
And it's not limited to apples, other fruits like bananas are affected as well
That's why gaslighting should be considered a crime, if it isn't yet.
From Wikipedia: " the sting—particularly that of P. grossa—is among the most painful of all insects, though the intense pain only lasts about five minutes.[One researcher described the pain as "...immediate, excruciating, unrelenting pain that simply shuts down one's ability to do anything, except scream"
Note: this post originally had 123 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
I was looking to read about the story of the woman's ex-boyfriend living in her attic for 12 years, but it was only in the headline. If you are too... It happened in South Carolina, USA. She thought she had a poltergeist. Her adult sons and nephew searched the attic and found her ex from 12 years ago asleep in the back of the attic. They found cups filled with feces and urine. He also has adjusted the vents to watch her in her bedroom. The ex ran out and escaped before the police arrived and hasn't been seen since. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/woman-finds-ex-boyfriend-living-attic-12-years-after-break-up_n_1876759
Well that just sounds awful. At that point I'd move. Find somewhere without an attic... but I bet sleeping is difficult and she's always looking over her shoulder and into her vents still.
Load More Replies...No more. I felt traumatized by some of these AND, to make matters worse, like the complaints below - click bait. I was lured in by a headline of which its story wasn't even included.
There are a total of 123 not 50, and the ex is #71 on the list
Load More Replies...I was looking to read about the story of the woman's ex-boyfriend living in her attic for 12 years, but it was only in the headline. If you are too... It happened in South Carolina, USA. She thought she had a poltergeist. Her adult sons and nephew searched the attic and found her ex from 12 years ago asleep in the back of the attic. They found cups filled with feces and urine. He also has adjusted the vents to watch her in her bedroom. The ex ran out and escaped before the police arrived and hasn't been seen since. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/woman-finds-ex-boyfriend-living-attic-12-years-after-break-up_n_1876759
Well that just sounds awful. At that point I'd move. Find somewhere without an attic... but I bet sleeping is difficult and she's always looking over her shoulder and into her vents still.
Load More Replies...No more. I felt traumatized by some of these AND, to make matters worse, like the complaints below - click bait. I was lured in by a headline of which its story wasn't even included.
There are a total of 123 not 50, and the ex is #71 on the list
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