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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!

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.”

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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.”

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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."

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same in Italy... You're allowed to disobey an order that you think is illegal...

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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.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

yeah Disney often adapts its stories to be appropriate for children, eventually leading everybody to only remember the Disney version and not the original

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"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.

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“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.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can barely draw a stick figure and if instructions have more than one step it is safer to write them down.

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"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."

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"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."

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓈𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝒷𝑒 𝓉𝓊𝓇𝓃𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝒶 𝒻𝑜𝓃𝓉!

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T J
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I print everything because my handwriting is atrocious. I am impressed with its beauty

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Celeste Grant
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is so subjective, and surely unless they have examined everyone's hand writing they don't know who is the best! Yes her hand writing is beautiful but I don't think she will be the only person who could do this.

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Andy Acceber
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whoever decided this needs to check out some American prisoners' handwriting. With little to no enrichment, little to no permitted hobbies or job options, and ridiculously long sentences, lots of inmates devote time to perfecting their penmanship.

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Michael Sanders
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For people actually taking the time to argue on the validity of people saying this girl has the best handwriting, just go with it. My mom had told me all my life I had the best handwriting, but you don’t see me arguing with the judges.

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Joseph OReilly
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's great cause it's legible like actual good writing but nice to look at like cursive. I agree

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WOW....just WOW!!! to see PROPER cursive writing!!! BEAUTIFUL!!

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Dave P
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can we hire her for calligraphy? she can make a ton off of this skill

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That one girl I think I saw on daily dose of Internet can print perfectly. Her handwriting looks just like her school books.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Who has the record of the most beautiful writing that is f*****g readble

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Such lovely hand writing, mine looks like a spider crawled over the paper!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is so nice. It takes forever for me to write something out even 1/8th that neat.

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Sam Cook
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow, that looks like something you could do in Pages or Word.

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Ja R
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

cursive is becoming lost in the USA i seen HS grads that cannot read anything but printing. my mom had great handwriting sadly i did not inherit it i can be worst than a doctors often cannot read my own

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Monks when they wrote their books had beautiful handwriting, the above is comparable and so should be recognised.

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Bonnie Edwards
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's beautiful handwriting. How come she's forgotten to cross the 't' every single time?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

/Users/remygl/Documents/MyDocuments/MARCEL GALET-LALANDE/MGL-Boursault/Poesies (examples) A. Dange d'Orsay /Poesie-Dange d'Orsay-4.jpg

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow that looks like a quest scroll you see in RPGs.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is handwriting the same as cursive? I thought it just meant writing by hand. Correct me if I'm wrong please. I'm confused by the "it's not cursive" comments. Whatever it's called, it's beautiful and pleasant to read.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also i have this glitch where if i types something in, it replies to other comment. I had originall typed lol in cindys post, but it moved to other places, like RoseTheMad's post. Please don't downvote me for this.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just wait until she hears about note taking while the teacher/lecturer is speaking at like 300 WPM.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh HOW I envy her. I am completely unable to produce readable anything.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And rightly so. Dang, I thought my mom's handwriting was good...

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Used to work with a woman who had the most beautiful handwriting. More like calligraphy and she wrote everything in it. She was paid to address people's wedding invitations by hand.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Meanwhile my handwriting is bad enough I have trouble reading what I wrote 20 minutes ago.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If only the schools went back to teaching cursive again...."sigh"

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love writing in cursive. Nothing like this, but I'm always trying to improve. It feels like art, to me. I've been trying to teach myself calligraphy, and it's not easy.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I personally don't think this is a pretty handwriting at all

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Would be relevant if it was actually hand writing, this is printing and it's not uncommon for anyone to have better printing than hand writing.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Punctuation and grammar are not quite as important, and regardless I still wish I had good handwriting.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

maybe that's the one officially recognized, but even though it's pretty, youtube it's filled with thousands of handwriting videos which show a more beautiful handwriting than this

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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.

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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)."

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here's another fact. Marilyn Monroe and Queen Elizabeth were born in the same year.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Except 21 payouts and Non Disclosure agreements. No innocent person would pay out that many times

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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