Weird World: 50 Amazing Facts From This Instagram Page To Satisfy Your Curiosity
Interview
It’s a weird and wonderful world we live in, and there’s nobody out there who knows it better than the admins of Weird World. These linked Instagram and Facebook accounts share strange and interesting facts about science, history, and practically anything you can imagine!
We bet this page would go over well with anyone who enjoys juicy bits of trivia about everything and anything, but everyone is bound to find something that’ll satisfy their curiosity. What was the first ever fashion statement observed in chimpanzees? When in our lives do we start smiling and laughing less? Their page scratches all of these “I wonders” and more.
Read on for some behind-the-scenes info from our interview with the page’s creators and curators.
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The page is the brainchild of three friends who created it together in 2011. We reached out and they agreed to tell BoredPanda more about their page, which they created “as a way to share all the fascinating and weird information we come across.”
They emphasized that this had been an interest before they ever began sharing their posts with others, indicating that they regularly “sought out the most captivating and extraordinary facts, stories, and phenomena discovered on the internet.”
“We enjoy researching and sharing a wide range of topics,” the admins explained, “but our personal favorite types of posts revolve around natural phenomena and anomalies. These topics often captivate our interest and inspire us to delve deeper into understanding the unexplained.”
Mr. Rogers is an automatic upvote. If only there was an episode where he had met Bob Ross, my childhood CRT TV might have exploded out of sheer awesome.
The admins also discussed the preferences they’ve noticed among their readers. It turns out that Weird World followers “particularly enjoy posts that delve into mysterious topics [, w]hether it's unsolved mysteries, paranormal phenomena, or strange occurrences[.]”
Who the f**k ridicules some random person with a gift on the train? Food and flowers sound like a normal Valentine's day gift or something like that, who expects more is greedy
Personally, I’d recommend hitting this post up anytime you’re about to head to your favorite quiz bowl. With all of these neat trivia facts, there’s a decent chance that one of these facts (or something like it) might land on your lap.
If you’re not a trivia fan, would its health benefits change your mind? There are all sorts of neurological and emotional benefits to trivia. Let’s start with the fact that it can be good for your brain. Psychologist Deborah Stokes, Ph.D., L.P.C., B.C.N. told Healthline that “retaining information about things we’re interested in can be like exercise for the frontal cortex as the brain ages.”
Trivia is also a great social activity that gets you out of the house and meeting new people. The same Healthline article points out that trivia nights offer a rare (and usually, hopefully, quite strictly enforced) opportunity to put our phones down and spend some time with people face-to-face. Indeed, taking your phone out may get you penalized for cheating!
This will no doubt be unpopular but research has shown that 3-month-old babies prefer faces from certain racial groups, usually those that look like them, 9-month-olds use race to categorize face. https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2020/08/children-notice-race
I don't see why it wouldn't be unpopular. Race and colour *does* exist, and yes, some humans might tend to naturally feel more comfortable with people who look more like them. I think the point of this post is that, while they will comprehend these obvious and undeniable differences, they won't actually develop *negative* bias per se until a parent or other person projects that onto them.
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When i see stuff like that about kids i aways think the writers have bad memory. I mean, have you ever been a kid? They are the most selfish, cruel, jerk bullies. They crush anyone who is different in any possible form, and have to be thought otherwise. Or maybe my experiences were just worse than most, and these people don't have kids.
Oh no doubt kids can be horrible, but not when they're little - they may say things that come across as hurtful but it's just them being honest - pointing out someone is maybe fat, or bald, or has a big nose - it's just what they see. The nasty, cruel behaviour that follows later is very much learned through so many different places. My oldest kid I had to ban from the bloody Disney channel, watching the tv shows on that gave her such an attitude that she copied from the characters, it was pretty eye opening! Then there's the mob mentality of it all. My kids have, thankfully, all stayed mostly very kind people. I've always taught them being nice to people is important, but not all parents are nice people to or around their kids, which creates mean kids, it's all they know.
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So true! I don't understand racism. I did not know what racism was, until I had to move to the south as a child. Not saying everyone in the south is racist. Just to clear that up. People are people, everyone should treat others the same as they want to be treated. Unless you're an a*s, then you get what you deserve
Kids are innocent and just accept what is - they ask simple questions and accept the answer. I remember my oldest asking why a kid had brown skin when she was in nursery and I just explained people can look different, just like people have different eye colours, hair colour etc that peoples skin are different colours too and comes from who they're related to. That's was that. Same when I was a kid, I remember finding out some things were actually derogatory names for certain races and I was absolutely disgusted and I haven't uttered the words since finding out. It never made sense to me that physical differences should make any difference as to how you feel about someone. My simple mantra in life is don't be a d**k, if folk are nice then I like them, if they're not I don't like them, but I'm still nice to them because I am not a d**k. Simple
When I was a little kid we had one black (as in African black, not Aboriginal black) kid in my class (thanks to super racist immigration policies in Australia at that time, this was not unusual). I remember very clearly what my reaction to seeing him was, and it was curiosity. That's all. Curiosity and interest because he looked different, before I got used to it and stopped noticing. He ended up becoming popular because he was the fastest runner in our class, and I don't remember anyone ever giving him a hard time for being black.
When my oldest kid was about 6 months old we attended this baby-gym class and one of the other babies were of Asian ethinicity. My daughter spent the first time at the gym class just staring at this baby and her mom. But she never looked twice at my brother who was adopted from Korea. She has also said some things about people with dark skin that made me want to dig a hole to climb into. But the last year in her kindergarten she was best friends with a girl who came from somewhere in Africa. She was a bit reluctant about this girl at first because the girl mainly spoke English and only a few words in Danish. But they figured it out together and were the best friends. ❤ All my kids have been through this "journey". First they are a bit sceptical about humans that look different from them. Then, they get a bit sceptical about ppl speaking other languages than their own. But now they don't care. My oldest is 6yo now, if that's of interest by any readers. :)
. . . and yet playmates rather play then figure out facial and skin constructs.
We are all human beings under the skin. I really wish people could see this
When it comes to play, young children truly will play with anyone. I should know. I have 4 kids, and did a lot of child care as a teenager, and yeah, if it's fun, they'll all join in. Preference for faces does not equal racism.
Don't think anyone said it did, all that was pointed out is that babies see a difference.
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My skin color makes me "white person" at a glance, although I'm Jewish. When I was 3 my 5 year old sister's best friend was a girl from down the street who happened to be African American. That was late 60s and I praise my parents. To this day, I'm colorblind, to the point where it mystifies me when people are actually seen as some abstraction like "black" or "white."
I don‘t see what a Religion has to do with being white or not.
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And then you get two kids (under 10 or so) and ask them what's different between them and they say "I like tomato sauce and he doesn't". That is the total beauty of our civilization.
In my country there are a lot of gypsies. Everyone in my family is with white skin, but we never ever talked about other people bad. My kids are 2, 4 and almost 6 at the moment. They don't know that there is a difference and they accept people the way I do - as even. I don't care if they are poor, dirty, uneducated or even thieves - Jesus died for all of us and that's it.
However, the experts in Healthline’s article also warned about the potential pitfalls of an unhealthy approach to trivia. For some people, trivia can become an obsession where they can’t accept having any holes in their knowledge about a given subject.
Better than sitting in the middle of the road with a tube of super glue and a sign
John Kounios, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Drexel University in Pennsylvania, told Healthline that “this can motivate a person to the point at which they collect information about that topic compulsively. This might be called the ‘collect them all’ phenomenon. People collect facts about a topic the way a stamp collector collects stamps. The more, and the rarer, the better.”
“Some people are compulsive about gathering information on a topic,” he added in their article. “It’s only a problem if they’re ignoring other things in their lives.”
the struggle is real! i'm no one without my glasses, but i hope one day i put them on and find i won a golden medal too
Reminds me of the story of that mommy cat who did the same, burning herself to get all of her kittens out of a burning building. No matter if human or not, everyone's a superhero when it comes to saving their beloved ones
The world didn't deserve Robin Williams. But I'm glad we had him for as long as we did.
true humanity would be that this vaccine exists for good, and that it is free, or at least cheap
Bereaved mother elephants have been seen doing the same thing. :(
A good thing to do, but all of it went to slave owners, the people who were enslaved received nothing.
"The shoe is on the hand it fits. There's really not much more to it."
SAD. Seasonal Affective Disorder. Lack of light can cause depression.
I've watched an interview with this guy and he describes using his EXPOSED ARM BONES to open the door. Good lord.
The barber was awesome, cut his hair for free because "he's human just like us"
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These aren't weird, they're cool and inspiring and heartbreaking.
I am only at 14th and I have to say there are some real tear jerkers in this list.
Intense Stories! By the way, what do you do with the time saved by writing RIP instead of Rest in Peace (they gave their whole lives and you didn't even give 5 seconds of it)?
Are we shaming people for using common abbreviations now?
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These aren't weird, they're cool and inspiring and heartbreaking.
I am only at 14th and I have to say there are some real tear jerkers in this list.
Intense Stories! By the way, what do you do with the time saved by writing RIP instead of Rest in Peace (they gave their whole lives and you didn't even give 5 seconds of it)?
Are we shaming people for using common abbreviations now?
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