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This Twitter Page Posts Random Interesting Facts, And Here Are 40 Of The Best Ones (New Pics)
Some of you might remember the Twitter account WTF Facts from Bored Panda's earlier post but if you aren't familiar with it yet, all you need to know is that it shares weird but interesting trivia.
From celebrity life and movies to archeological finds and history, WTF Facts covers a wide range of themes, and reassures its 130K followers that all of the information which appears on the account is fact-checked and verified.
It's been a while since our last publication about this fun online project, so we thought it's the perfect time to revisit it and help you replenish your thirst for knowledge. Enjoy!
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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
It was only after he was gone that I realised in every picture, even when he was smiling, his eyes were so sad. :(
At first, you might not know what to do with this information. But I have two words for you: trivia night. As Jaya Saxena wrote in GQ, no one can claim to have invented "knowing random stuff for fun," but the trend gained a lot of traction in the 1970s. While the original Jeopardy! daytime game show premiered back in 1964, the nighttime syndicated version started airing a decade later, around the time when pub trivia began to take off.
Of course, pub quiz nights have evolved and a lot of that change has been organic, the first formalized version came about in 1976, when Sharon Burns and Tom Porter peddled quizzes to pubs in southern England.
At first, the idea was to give bars a way to get people inside on slow nights, but the concept of pub quiz turned into a cultural phenomenon. In the U.S., groups like Pub Trivia USA and America's Pub Quiz organize city- and state-wide competitions, often with serious cash prizes.
"We don't want people to walk into a bar and feel like they can't contribute for a round," Cullen Shaw, co-founder of the NYC Trivia League, said. "If there's a really difficult 17th-century poetry question, maybe there's one person in the bar that knows that, but a sports question comes up after that and they let someone else answer. That's what's fun about team trivia."
But you don't even need a team to participate now. Hundreds of thousands of people log on every night to play HQ, and though the app can be glitchy at times, it hasn't stopped folks from trying to claim hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars in prize money.
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Monkey Love 3 years ago
I've worked with Denzel and he is such a wonderful person. Gracious. Kind. Stand up guy.
But learning obscure facts isn't just fun. It's also good for our mental health. For example, experts say that playing trivia games can provide a dopamine rush much like gambling, but without the negative effects.
"You get a rush or a neuroreward signal or a dopamine burst from winning,” John Kounios, Ph.D., professor of psychology and director of the doctoral program in applied cognitive and brain sciences at Drexel University in Pennsylvania, told Healthline. “I think whenever you’re challenged with a trivia question and you happen to know it, you get a rush. It’s sort of like gambling.”
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Lovin' Life 3 years ago
Dolly is so amazing. My grandsons get a book each month from her literacy program.
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Kirsten Kerkhof 3 years ago
And well-deserved too. That man is an absolute legend. And anyone who says they can switch channels when they hear his voice is a liar. There, I said it.
Kounios said the benefits can also be similar to those of playing a video game. However, unlike gambling and video games, Kounios said trivia is not a problematic habit.
"I don't think there are any pitfalls," he said. "Like anything else that’s fun, it [just] takes up time."
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Andrew Gibb 3 years ago
This is worse than it sounds- he was in the cold and dark in the capsized boat which sunk at a depth of 30 metres. When rescued he had to stay in a decompression chamber for 3 days before he could breathe normally again.
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renee brack 3 years ago
Wish I could sprout a coupla cobras to watch my back. Especially walking home at night.
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Lovin' Life 3 years ago
That's awesome. And I thought I was doing well learning to tie a tie on YouTube
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Andrew Gibb 3 years ago
gets you downvoted on boredpanda- nobody likes to hear about blind people getting a cheese grater for a present and then thinking it to be a violent story
Bob Belcher 3 years ago
What do you call a cow with no legs? Ground beef. Where do you find a dog with no legs? Where you left him. Thank you, I'll be here all night.
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Riley Quinn 3 years ago
Now, hear me out... maybe it's because intelligence is required to understand dark humor and sarcasm. People who are offended by this form of humor are generally not too bright.
IlovemydogShilo 3 years ago
Not necessarily true. I have a really dark sense of humour and I'm as thick as pig poo.
otplus 3 years ago
Could be both, i remember a study that correlated happiness with less intelligence
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Hotdogking 3 years ago
Did you know that the rulers of Britain, Germany and Russia during WW1 were cousins. That means the war was a big family squabble. Yes I too am very smart
Logic and Reason 3 years ago
It’s a shame so many people these days try to mask their bigotry by calling it dark humor.
Concept-Peter Roosdorp 3 years ago
I have seen too many times people that think that dark humor are jokes about colored people. So there might be some truth to this.
julie son 3 years ago
don't know if that's accurate, as I've noticed quite a bit that less intelligent people tend to find cruel situations amusing, but I know that the ability to laugh at a dark joke is a fairly good indicator of a person's mental health. If you can laugh at a it, you are doing ok, but if you think it's terrible you might be depressed, or troubled, and you don't see the humor because you over-sympathize with the sad part.
Mazer 3 years ago (edited)
That study is rubbish, plenty of people have gallows humor and couldn’t pencil their way through an SAT test. No doubt the study was conducted in professions where a high IQ is needed, like medicine etc
Tom Spade 3 years ago
My dark humor finds the bright side. Over half the people at work are out with covid. Dark humor says I got the place to myself. Wearing shorts and a bathrobe to work. Higher intelligence dictates that i carry on as a grown person, not be a f*****g idiot, and don't violate the trust put in me. And I do not own a bathrobe. Knowing that I could amuses me enough, and releases me from the obligation of proving it. This is not RedDwarf, lol.
RandomBeing 3 years ago
according to a singular study hmm? Yeah this doesn't really hold up well
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renee brack 3 years ago
What an adventure and accomplishment. Imagine who you'd be at the end? Where are my hiking boots...
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Stephen Branley 3 years ago
If he's South Africa's most infamous robber, why does the police board say ""Fort Lauderdale"?
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Lovin' Life 3 years ago
Very interesting. There are some really good people in this world. We need more like them.
Lovin' Life 3 years ago
Very interesting. There are some really good people in this world. We need more like them.
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