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50 Facts So Fascinating They’ll Stick In Your Brain All Week
What’s the best way to soak up knowledge? Some may argue that this requires spending your days in the library, reading countless books on a wide range of topics. Others might say that it’s best to get out and see the world. Traveling and talking to interesting people will widen your horizons more than a book ever could.
But most of us don’t have the time or resources to choose either of those paths. So the easiest way to acquire more knowledge might just be learning fun facts! That's why we took a trip to Weird Facts on Instagram and gathered some of their most fascinating posts below. Enjoy scrolling through this list full of unexpected information, and be sure to upvote the posts that teach you something new!
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Nils Skirnir 11 months ago
As it should be. In many ways the ancients were more advanced than us. This was particularly true before the dominance of Abrahamic religions
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Daisydaisy 11 months ago
I had a crush on Beethoven when I was a little girl and this anecdote used to bring tears to my eyes
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Zig Zag Wanderer 11 months ago
I have always thought that if any politician is caught lying, stealing or cheating in any way, they should be prevented from standing. I mean, we do the same for lawyers, so why not politicians?
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 11 months ago
Er, well. It's honestly more of a situation like "REALLY, Maxwell? YOU picked C sharp to howl on? You KNOW that's my favorite note! How DARE you! I shall howl louder than you on a G flat note to drown out your foul THEFT of C sharp!" and then a wolf like me is off to the side thinking "Okay, if I howl on an F sharp, it's going to clash horribly with Uncle Max AND Cousin Flouncy, so I'll do that..." XD
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Zig Zag Wanderer 11 months ago
Well, it's not polite to aim at the piper or drummer. Even the flag-bearer usually gets a pass.
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Blackmoon The Dragon 11 months ago
The thing is people probably had to give the money back, or the security crew was able to receive the money... so it wouldve actually been better to just hide the money and give it out secretly smh
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Nils Skirnir 11 months ago
Having gone through this annually, people aren’t ‘sent,’ but rather, given the opportunity to attend these for free.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 11 months ago
I have just watched the video. Having decades of experience putting costumes, clothing, and hats onto cats, I can confirm that the two cats don't really look all that disturbed/upset/traumatized by wearing tiny boxing gloves XD The tuxedo's ears aren't even flattened. I think the tabby and white (on the left) was more disturbed that some random human kept lifting it up by its harness to "stand" on its hind legs XD
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Zig Zag Wanderer 11 months ago (edited)
Does it have to be dêad first? Asking for a friend....
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Annik Perrot 11 months ago (edited)
The air in salt mines is totally dry, since the salt absorbs most of the dampness. Asthma is exacerbated by humidity.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 11 months ago
A bit misleading. It was ONE particular beluga whale, named Noc, who lived at a marine research facility, who did this. There are no documented cases of it happening in wild belugas or in any other beluga besides Noc. Noc also wasn't really "mimicking" in the way we would consider a parrot would - it just sounded like a voice/words and wasn't actually words at all.
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Nadine Debard 11 months ago (edited)
The sound was 317 decibels according to physicists who used measurements to calculate the sound wave. It was the loudest sound ever "recorded" on earth. It reverberated around the globe 7 times during 5 days, which means it was detected on sismographs all around the world multiple times. The eruption caused tens of thousands of casualties. Edit: I made a mistake in my description. Even though seismographs existed yet, the thing that was measured all over the world was the atmospheric pressure that increased dramatically, then dropped.
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Jan Rosier 11 months ago
I have kids. Two night getaway with the wife while MIL watched the young kids. Did not experience this AT ALL. (over 20 years on, and still never...)
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Nils Skirnir 11 months ago
Primarily to escape the repercussions of debt, which are severe here
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Zig Zag Wanderer 11 months ago
I was always told it was to ease the vomit through the oesophagus and prevent that from getting hurt (as it is when you get reflux). That makes much more sense.
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 11 months ago
They usually didn't grind grains (or anything else) the point of treadmills was that the work was dull, repetitive, and ultimately pointless.
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Kira Okah 11 months ago
They were an experiment. The cars were not "launched", there were 5 prototypes and 50 public test cars. They were hideously expensive to produce, were difficult to start, accelrated slowly, had terrible fuel economy, were horribly noisy, and failed every emissions check the government had. They were destroyed because that was a condition of the failure of the experiment, ad a failure it was.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 11 months ago (edited)
The wording makes it sound like they can change color as rapidly as a chameleon can, which isn't true XD It IS true that a Siamese cat's (and any cat with the "pointed" coat pattern) coat is affected by temperature. When they are born, Siamese kittens are usually nearly pure white/light cream. They do NOT have dark "points" at birth. These develop as they age - the eumelanin deposits in the "coldest" parts of their bodies: legs/feet, tail, ears, and face. Sometimes Siamese cats will get darker on their entire bodies as they age, because their circulation is not as good, their blood is "thinner", and their entire body is slightly cooler than when it was a younger cat. Similarly, Siamese cats who live in very warm climates, like the desert/Arizona in the US, can lighten in color and their "color points" may shrink. These things will not happen to EVERY Siamese cat, however :)
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Zig Zag Wanderer 11 months ago
Because it's a business where you just need to be consistently there, often for most of a day. Most common Indian businesses are like this, like convenience stores. If you saw how people typically work in India (outside of office work) it would make a lot more sense to you.
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