Weird World: 50 Amazing Facts From This Instagram Page To Satisfy Your Curiosity
InterviewIt’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.”
Some things are so unbelievable. I hate to think any of these stories are made up. Because miracles really do happen right?
They do, something similar was in our Welsh news recently. Literally a chance encounter lead to a live organ Donation
Load More Replies...Please, please be an organ donor! Every day, countless organs and tissues are buried when the need for them is monumental. Without fail, the greatest gift you can give to another human being.
As a double lung transplant recipient, I totally agree with you. I NEVER smoked and believe it or not this was my first surgery (60 years-old). PLEASE PLEASE be an organ donor. You can save 8 lives by checking the box on your driver's license. PLEASE DON'T TAKE YOUR ORGANS TO HEAVEN, GOD KNOWS THAT WE NEED THEM HERE!
Load More Replies...How incredible that they happened to meet each other! I wonder what the odds are?
I don't think it was a coincidence these 2 special ladies met. Some higher power up there
WOW! How often does this happen. A wonderful coincidence!
Most people don't consider becoming a kidney donor, but it's very rewarding thing to do for everyone involved. If you are medically eligible, you can donate a kidney at any time and any age (preferably younger). You can live a perfectly healthy life with a normal lifespan with just a single kidney, which actually grows larger and is able to compensate for the loss of the other. And if, for some reason, you are a donor and your remaining kidney has issues at any point the rest of your life, you get put at the top of the list for transplant. But any complications are extremely rare. Living donors are critical as cadaver donors are usually older and the kidney doesn't last very long and then the person has to go back on the transplant list again. There are over 100,000 people in the U.S. on the kidney transplant list at any given time and only about 6000 live donor kidney transplants are done per year. So don't be afraid to give it some thought.
If you're in the states, most states allow you to sign up to be an organ donor when you get a driver's license or Id card. In Oregon you can also register when you get your driver's permit (age of consent in Oregon for organ donation is 15).
OK, I was getting teary this whole article, but this one really got me.
🎉 That’s cause to celebrate!! I hope all is well for all involved now!
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
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?
Load More Replies...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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