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.”
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 know I always become markedly more sad and gloomy during autumn and winter.
Load More Replies...We had vitamin D therapy lamps in Scotland to help during long, dark winter months. I could only imagine how bad it must be in Siberia. I loathe the cold, but was born in a colder country and have never truly lived anywhere warm. I would love to experience a warm winter for once without the horrible seasonal depression. I know some people say that SAD is just a made up "illness" , but being in the cold and dark for an extended period really gets to you.
i read that as vitamin d therapy llamas and was really happy for a sec lol
Load More Replies...when i was living farther north in russia i had to do this, it was weird
Vitamin D helps with mineral absorption, and is not only for seasonal affective disorder...
Yes - can’t absorb calcium (as well as some other things) without it.
Load More Replies...And Vit D is VERY important in fighting any disease, especially FLUs and yet the 'govt' said to stay indoors during Covid. A really bad mistake!!!
"No we're not summoning a demon, we're getting our daily dose of vitamin D."
What did they do before inveting artificial UV light / electricity?
Vitamin D is added to milk in Canada, slightly less strange way to get it imho 😂
Is the posted image from the movie adaptation of Ray Bradbury's All Summer in a Day?
I too had this treatment in Scotland when I was 5 for psoriasis
I'm glad that they provide this very simple solution to help everyone.
Light therapy. Anyone can buy a high output therapy lamp on Amazon for around 30 bucks. I keep mine on my desk.
This is what I need. My doctor told me he's never seen a Vit D level lower than mine. :x
What's worse is I have reptiles, and while these geckos don't necessarily "need" UVB, I have some UVB lamps. I could just...sit under the UVB lamp. With my geckos.
Load More Replies...I may need to start doing this, I'm chronically deficient in vitamin d (which my husband loves to make jokes about - I'm sure you can all guess his suggestions) - I've been taking supplements for years but doesn't seem to help much. I also hate hot weather, my skin reacts so badly by getting super itchy almost like an allergy which only started after the first time I ever ended up with sunburn as a teenager - now I don't tan, get itchy and want to die in the sun - just as well I live in Scotland so don't need to deal with it much
Sorry to hear this. I apologize if you already know this, but do you take D3 in oil capsules ? Helps me to get through winter. D3 is the kind received through sunlight. Many supplements only contain D2. Wish you all the best.
Load More Replies...Okay, the light and goggles/sunglasses I can understand. The underwear is another question though.
The parts of the body where D3 vitamin is most easily "manufactured" is through the skin on the chest/belly and the back.
Load More Replies...My wife was originally from the far north of Finland where they have polar night where it's dark from November to January, now I wonder if she had to partake in this.
Seasonal affective disorder doesn't HAVE to do with sunlight. Light therapy can be helpful. Some people become sad and negatively affected by the summer months also. Anything that is related to the seasons is technically SAD
looks like they’re aliens uploading nutrients or something in the pic
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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