While some of the things we learn don't necessarily make us smarter, they can definitely arouse our desire to learn more. Or at least help us continue our stalling conversations. And Twitter account WTF Facts is dedicated to collecting and sharing these random tidbits of information. From celebrity lifestyle to international relations, the project covers a wide range of topics, which is probably the reason why its feed remains so fresh and interesting. Continue scrolling and check out some of the most popular tweets WTF Facts have ever released!
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Thank you for this. It's the first time I've realised smth means "something"
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My favourite fact about elephants is that looking at humans triggers the same response in elephants as is triggered in humans when we look at cute animals. The next time you're having a bad day, just remember that elephants think you are adorable!
Elephants are known in the wild for their mourning procedures, including visiting graves to the day on the solar calendar the other had died (they must have a natural way of telling), etc. When Botswana had to cull a few specific herds for enviromental reasons they had to use huge teams to take out a whole heard in 2 seconds so spare any elephants the mental pain (the head ranger who had to lead the culling took his own life after it, he worked in protecting elephants for years, loved them, etc. He had to do it, but couldnt handle it)
There's a book about Lawrence Anthony and the elephants called The Elephant Whisper, it's very good and I highly reccomend
Omg.. so that's why they always go back and visit their loved ones bones....
Researchers even discovered that when a mother elephant dies, her child will revisit her bones and place their trunks where the mother's mouth was. Every year, and these are adult elephants
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THIS is why it so offends me when people claim that animal's are THINGS and not living, feeling, caring and concerned beings.
I have never heard this from anyone - ever - about any animal.
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Endearing. Animals know so much more than we credit them with knowing.
Oh my goodness , my heart aches when I hear about an animal being sad. Elephants are amazing
Do they still do this yearly, I wonder? They say elephants never forget, after all.
It is true, elephants do not forget. We humans think we are superior to all other life, but we are not. There are more ways to communicate and live.
I went to a talk his widow gave and she mentioned this. She’s got some incredible stories about Thula Thula. Read her book “An Elephant in my Kitchen”.
Read The Elephant Whisperer, by Lawrence Anthony, wonderful book about these elephants
Thula Thula, The Elephant Whisperer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v9IV8joyxg
Wish some people were more like elephants, happy that most people are.
Love, honor, respect and remembrance. Animals have this! They are thankful, and appreciate his help. They know he rescued them and saved them!
I read about this......it's amazing what animals know and feel.....and equally amazing that we don't.....or won't......acknowledge this.
animal love is unconditional, we could learn from them in place of killing them.
Why should this be so strange. Animals, especially elephants have been know to cross vast amounts of territory every year for one ritual or another. Whether it be for , avoiding pitfalls of looming treacherous weather, food migration, mating, etc.
Elephants are wonderful creatures too as is nature left alone.. the majority of the human race is no doubt the least empathic for other species on our planet. Must say something for real wisdom.
Elephants are more like us than different but a definite improvement on the human species.
so beautiful. such respect. I wish all humans were so kind and wonderful to elephants. They are amazing beings.
Wow.... amazingly intelligent and wise animals that really know the meaning of respect, thankfulness, and remembrance.
Never mind how they knew All that matters is === They Knew. Please do not ask how.
Elephants are incredibly social, magnificent animals. Yet they are still murdered to this day for their tusks!
A recent documentary followed an aging female elephant as she made her journey to the elephant graveyard. Her youngest calf followed along with her, as well as a few of the other older females....Days later they stood around her, honoring her, as other species began to appear. I held my breath watching this, these were predators, lions and hyenas, etc.... They stayed close to her for a few days, even slept beside her, almost as if they were guarding her, then they left. It was a beautiful and heartbreaking thing to witness.
Yeah, thanks jaferec. I agree with your comment about the compassion wild animals have for us humans. Very inciteful.
Load More Replies...Knowing obscure facts isn't just fun. It's also good for our mental health. For example, experts say that playing trivia games can provide a dopamine rush much like gambling, but without the negative effects.
Even if our trivia games differ, the benefits are there. Whether we're playing Trivial Pursuit at home or attending a pub trivia night, the basic premise remains the same: we experience the thrill of providing correct answers to questions about lesser-known facts.
"You get a rush or a neuroreward signal or a dopamine burst from winning,” John Kounios, Ph.D., professor of psychology and director of the doctoral program in applied cognitive and brain sciences at Drexel University in Pennsylvania, told Healthline. “I think whenever you’re challenged with a trivia question and you happen to know it, you get a rush. It’s sort of like gambling.”
Kounios said the benefits can also be similar to those of playing a video game.
However, unlike gambling and even video games, Kounios said trivia is generally not a problematic habit.
“I don’t think there are any pitfalls,” he said. “Like anything else that’s fun, it takes up time.”
A librarian from California, Sarah Kishler, loves trivia games and enjoys attending a monthly pub trivia night in which a team of librarians participates.
"Learning facts so that I can get better at trivia is definitely a passion of mine," she told Healthline. "Getting a question right is definitely very satisfying to me."
Same in Italy... You're allowed to disobey an order that you think is illegal...
Over the past decade or so, pub trivia nights that are popular in the United Kingdom appear to have grown in other parts of Europe and the United States.
Enthusiasts like Kishler enjoy getting to interact with people at these events, especially compared to electronic trivia games.
She has learned that doing well at these social trivia games gives her "a feeling of validation" and increases her self-esteem.
yeah Disney often adapts its stories to be appropriate for children, eventually leading everybody to only remember the Disney version and not the original
"I love general knowledge, geography, literature, music, science trivia," Kishler explained. "I just love to accumulate knowledge. I like the exercise that it gives my brain and memory."
She doesn't think of herself as a competitive person but nevertheless enjoys getting a bit amped up at trivia games.
“People really like to have some expertise on something and the brain is very good at focusing on things that you’re interested in,” Deborah Stokes, Ph.D., L.P.C., B.C.N., a psychologist in Virginia, who focuses on neurotherapy, told Healthline.
According to Stokes, learning large bodies of knowledge can often start with trivia. And people who are interested in trivia can be brainy, have a high IQ, and be smart on a lot of levels.
However, Kounios said that people aren’t necessarily better at trivia games just because they’re more educated.
I can barely draw a stick figure and if instructions have more than one step it is safer to write them down.
"Some people soak up facts,” Kounios added. "Plenty of people with a lot more education may not remember what they had for breakfast yesterday morning."
"In typical people, my observation, not backed up by any research, is that their interest in trivia is confined to topics that they are generally interested in. So if a person is very interested in history, then they may either seek out history trivia, or they might just naturally pick it up in the course of learning about nontrivial aspects of history."
I love Dave Grohl, but he isn't the only artist to have done this....
Stokes pointed out that trying to retain information about things we're interested in can be like a good exercise for the frontal cortex as the brain ages.
"That’s the first thing to go with injury or with age if we don’t use it," she said.
Of course, it's completely understandable if the pandemic has drained your brain of the desire to learn and flooded it with boredom and tiredness instead. In an earlier Bored Panda interview, Lenore Skenazy, the president of Let Grow and the founder of the Free-Range-Kids movement, said that before we can become curious again, we have to do the hard part: get off the couch. Force yourself out the door. Why? Because beyond your four walls, things are never exactly the same. Weather, animals, people, sounds, smells, clouds—they’re all swirling about."
Lenore continued: "Ask yourself to start noticing new things. I did that this morning with a friend. We took a walk around our neighborhood and started looking for interesting details in the homes and buildings we passed. It went from a walk down streets we’d seen a million times to a sort of treasure hunt. And the big thing we were really hunting for? Curiosity! When you’re curious you’re alive again—noticing, thinking, making connections. You can’t do that if there’s no new information coming in. So your first step is to force yourself out of a rut by leaving the house (harder during the pandemic, but not impossible)."
I always like to image what stories such old structure might have to tell
Here's another fact. Marilyn Monroe and Queen Elizabeth were born in the same year.
As an Italian (but this is my personal belief, everyone is entitled to it's own) this is exactly something Mafia would do. It's something I know occurs in Italy on a daily basis. You see a quite common modus operandi is mobster would do something nice for the community or for specific people, so that the community in the area feels dependable. One well known method of recruiting in the mafia is: you have a problem, we send to you someone you know (and you don't know he works for us). Maybe a friend of a friend. He'll fix your problem for you. After time is passed this person asks for a little innocent thing like let's say "I'm sick can you bring this box to this adress? I can't move". After that he asks for more pressuring you on the favor he did awhile back and tells you that box you delivered was full of drugs/handguns so you're an accomplice. And that's it you're in a system you can't escape without hurting family and friends.
I assume that this photo is all of the lazy culprits and, of course, the one who actually did the deed
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Many of these are incorrect or unproven. The article should be named "fantastic things a random twitter account claims without evidence but that would be slightly interesting if they were true"
Anyone else think WTF Facts needs to be turned into a Twilight Zone-style TV show telling some of these more incredible stories?
No? Like you’re gonna tune in and have Rod Serling be all “submitted for your approval, koalas sleep 22 hours a day, also here’s a closeup of a pyramid” and then wonder what’s the sociopolitical point it’s trying to make like the classic Twilight Zone.
Load More Replies... Woooooow! I did not know almost any of these facts! Thanks for sharing!
This person is standing at the roots of a redwood tree that fell in a windstorm. The proven source is me (although I'm not the one in the picture). root-605ff...e7eeaf.jpg 
The author was either from the Netherlands or just read a book about them but I'm not believing everything that's coming out in this post. Some of the facts were mostly just opinion (the clearest water, most breathtaking sight)
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Load More Replies... Many of these are incorrect or unproven. The article should be named "fantastic things a random twitter account claims without evidence but that would be slightly interesting if they were true"
Anyone else think WTF Facts needs to be turned into a Twilight Zone-style TV show telling some of these more incredible stories?
No? Like you’re gonna tune in and have Rod Serling be all “submitted for your approval, koalas sleep 22 hours a day, also here’s a closeup of a pyramid” and then wonder what’s the sociopolitical point it’s trying to make like the classic Twilight Zone.
Load More Replies... Woooooow! I did not know almost any of these facts! Thanks for sharing!
This person is standing at the roots of a redwood tree that fell in a windstorm. The proven source is me (although I'm not the one in the picture). root-605ff...e7eeaf.jpg
The author was either from the Netherlands or just read a book about them but I'm not believing everything that's coming out in this post. Some of the facts were mostly just opinion (the clearest water, most breathtaking sight)
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