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
She was the first to sue in Massachusetts, not the first in the colonies.
I think you're right. IIRC the first enslaved woman to sue for her freedom and win was Elizabeth Key, over 100 years earlier. (I am NOT good at history, so please correct me if that's fully wrong)
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The story is true and it's really cool, but that picture isn't of Mum Bett, it's of an African American civil right activists named Sojourner Truth. She was active in the early and mid 1800's and is most famous for her "Ain't I a Woman Speech". Just want the information out there.
In the first US census in 1790, Massachusetts was one of three states to report 0 slaves.
I didn't even know people sued for their freedom. How amazing! Although, you'd think one case won would set the precedent, thereby illegalizing slavery within each state where such a lawsuit was won. Or is that only if I higher court hears the case? Idk, I'm not a lawyer, just seems odd. And a woman at that, the odds are so stacked, and to win, just amazing.
I think that was a common name chosen when freed. Although, she may have started the trend. Either way, strongest women award contender, you know,...if they gave out such an award (outside the octagon of course). Or maybe there is one and I've been failing to nominate awesome chicks each year? Someone educate me!
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A quick correction: the woman on the left is Sojourner Truth (who is a fascinating person in her own right), not Elizabeth Freeman.
She actually overheard the prominent men of the town as they were discussing and writing the 'Resolves of Sheffield' and realized there wasn't any reason it didn't apply to her. Truly amazing woman! Also, the 'Resolves of Sheffield' were basically "borrowed" by Thomas Jefferson in writing the Declaration of Independence.
Just wondering, is she Morgan Freeman's great great (whatever number great) grandmother?
Edited for ridiculous misspellings, sorry: Possibly, but I would bet that the more likely scenarios is that he's definitely related to someone freed long ago. Maybe her, maybe any number of amazingly strong people who survived the horror of enslavement and lived to see better years as free citizens.
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I'm still waiting on the 'all men are equal' part to be a part of our society. Cheeto Jesus has committed treason, multiple SA with underage girls, and so much more yet he'll never see prison. Meanwhile, someone wrecks their own small plane and gets 20 years. Also, women still only make 83% of what men make for the same job. There is no equality in our system. In fact, the Equal Rights Amendment was never passed, if you can believe that. Remember all those 'ERA Now!' shirts? People gave up, I guess.
About that plane crash: no regard for hikers, campers, wildlife, environment. Lied on flight manifest. Parachuted out of plane, so no control over its crash point. Destroyed evidence in Federal investigation. All for likes. Stupid internet points. He deserves prison. On other note: I'm still salty about ERA. Worked to get that passed.
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It's Sojourner Truth, from mid-1800s ...the original OP dropped the ball on this one, or it was cropped from a multi-part article.
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We set a lot of precedents in the US. We were the first state to abolish slavery, enact a constitution, legalize same sex marriage, enact mandatory public education, hold a women's rights convention, and elect African-American legislators. Bay Staters invented basketball, volleyball, both analog and digital computers, chemotherapy, telegraph, typewriter, sewing machine, fire truck, liquid fuel rocket, vulcanized rubber, and telephone, among other things. We were the first state to have a public park, lighthouse, subway, public library, printing press, post office, ironworks, newspaper, university, novel written and published, canal, railroad, and public beach.
Bad annual leave, unions=evil, awful gun control, backwards abortion decisions for women…
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Some folks want us to be divided and thrive on (and make money on) us believing that we are a divided nation (USA). We have to fight them and the whole operation!! Our best hope in doing that is through love! ❤️❤️
And this can’t be talked about in schools in America because of critical race theory! ?That’s b******t!
Inspiring Woman of Color. For Catholics, you may be interested in today's news of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, who is the first African American to be considered "incorruptible" after she was discovered remarkably preserved 4 years after burial. She founded the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of Apostles ...the nuns who do the beautiful Gregorian chants.
Please, share some facts for us. I'm interested.
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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'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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