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One way to make life more fulfilling and exciting is to simply have an open mind. A lifelong curiosity and an unquenchable thirst for knowledge can let you reinvent yourself repeatedly. After all, there’s always something new you can learn, even though sometimes it may be hard to find the energy and motivation to keep going.
Thanks to the Facts by Guff Instagram account, we can receive our daily dose of knowledge by reading the completely random, unexpected, and unusual tidbits of information they share every day. Whether it’s enlightening their followers about goosebumps, baby elephants, or diamond rain, it certainly triggers a desire to know more.
Bored Panda has collected some of the best facts from the page, so continue scrolling and upvote the ones you might not have known about! Although just to warn you—once you get started, you’ll probably want to keep reading until your curiosity is satisfied.
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This Instagram account was created by Guff, a data-driven content company that aspires to enlighten people with daily trivia and wisdom. They have amassed more than 825K followers by sharing different bits of information every single day. Unexpected and fun facts seem to often catch people off guard in the best possible way, and many think that it's worth their time.
Staying curious and open to new ideas is not only enjoyable but also provides us with a dopamine rush. Whether it’s learning something new about history, science, art, or even modern pop culture, there are many benefits to keeping our brain cells active.
A study by researchers at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business has found that our brains are hungry and always willing to learn new details about the world. Researchers revealed that "new information acts on the brain’s dopamine-producing reward system in the same way as money or food."
"To the brain, information is its own reward, above and beyond whether it’s useful,” co-author of the study and associate professor Ming Hsu, Ph.D. told Neuroscience News. “And just as our brains like empty calories from junk food, they can overvalue information that makes us feel good but may not be useful—what some may call idle curiosity.”
However, knowledge usually becomes useful when it’s put into context. While many think that learning cool and interesting facts is a waste of time, it’s quite the opposite. Sure, you can find out everything you need with just a few searches and clicks on hyperlinks but it won't do any good to your critical thinking skills.
Scott H. Young, author of Ultralearning: Accelerate Your Career, Master Hard Skills and Outsmart the Competition, wrote that factual knowledge determines the speed you can acquire new knowledge on a topic. "The more you know, the faster you learn." It also is an important driver of our reading comprehension and other high-level skills, for example problem-solving. When you’re reading a book, it’s much easier to understand the deeper meaning if you’re already familiar with the topic.
"You can’t reason critically or creatively without first having amassed a large amount of factual knowledge," Young explained. "This is why the existence of Google and Wikipedia doesn’t reduce the need to learn facts. Something being a Google search away doesn’t mean it’s available in the background to allow you to parse new information easily."
If you find yourself wanting to expand your mental horizons, the Wall Street Journal bestselling author suggested to simply be curious. By reading more articles and books, and by watching a variety of shows or movies, you always surround yourself with new knowledge. If it's hard to understand everything at first, don’t be discouraged and try to look it up.
Young advised not to be afraid of topics that are new to you: "Knowledge is exponential, so if you’re not used to reading something, you’ll learn a bit less. However, as you read more about it, you can read faster and smarter." So picking up a book that might be "above your level" could take longer but will get easier with time.
Just remember, we are the ones using the newly learned facts and putting them into context. So if you’re wondering whether you’re ever going to use this stuff, one day you actually might. Sometimes, our brains are capable of the most wonderful things, and bringing two completely unrelated ideas into one is certainly one of them.
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Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago
I'm not a fan of his acting, but Keanu seems to be a genuinely good person.
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![🐦 Cher Ami (French For “Dear Friend,” In The Masculine) Was A Male Homing Pigeon Who Had Been Donated By Britain To The U.S. Army Signal Corps In France During World War I. He Is Famous For Delivering A Message From An Encircled Battalion Despite Serious Injuries During The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, October 1918.
"Cher Ami" Was Dispatched With A Note, Written On Onion Paper, In A Canister On His Right Leg;
"We Are Along The Road Parallel [sic] To 276.4. Our Own Artillery Is Dropping A Barrage Directly On Us. For Heavens Sake Stop It."
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🇩🇪 As Cher Ami Tried To Fly Back Home, The Germans Saw Him Rising Out Of The Brush And Opened Fire. After Several Seconds, He Was Shot Down But Managed To Take Flight Again. He Arrived Back At His Loft At Division Headquarters 25 Miles (40 Km) To The Rear In Just 25 Minutes, Helping To Save The Lives Of The 194 Survivors. He Had Been Shot Through The Breast, Blinded In One Eye, And Had A Leg Hanging Only By A Tendon. Cher Ami Became The Hero Of The 77th Infantry Division. Army Medics Worked To Save His Life. When He Recovered Enough To Travel, The Now One-Legged Bird Was Put On A Boat To The United States, With General John J. Pershing Seeing Him Off.
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source: Link In Our Bio. 🔗](https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/CXMw05vOUwH-png__880.jpg "🐦 Cher Ami (French For “Dear Friend,” In The Masculine) Was A Male Homing Pigeon Who Had Been Donated By Britain To The U.S. Army Signal Corps In France During World War I. He Is Famous For Delivering A Message From An Encircled Battalion Despite Serious Injuries During The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, October 1918.
\"Cher Ami\" Was Dispatched With A Note, Written On Onion Paper, In A Canister On His Right Leg;
\"We Are Along The Road Parallel [sic] To 276.4. Our Own Artillery Is Dropping A Barrage Directly On Us. For Heavens Sake Stop It.\"
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🇩🇪 As Cher Ami Tried To Fly Back Home, The Germans Saw Him Rising Out Of The Brush And Opened Fire. After Several Seconds, He Was Shot Down But Managed To Take Flight Again. He Arrived Back At His Loft At Division Headquarters 25 Miles (40 Km) To The Rear In Just 25 Minutes, Helping To Save The Lives Of The 194 Survivors. He Had Been Shot Through The Breast, Blinded In One Eye, And Had A Leg Hanging Only By A Tendon. Cher Ami Became The Hero Of The 77th Infantry Division. Army Medics Worked To Save His Life. When He Recovered Enough To Travel, The Now One-Legged Bird Was Put On A Boat To The United States, With General John J. Pershing Seeing Him Off.
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source: Link In Our Bio. 🔗")
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Ray Martin 3 years ago
True, so whatever you do don't think about how they feel when their new babies are taken away and placed in a field where they can still hear each other's cries. I live in the midst of cattle farms, and it's heartbreaking.
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Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago
Charasmatic megafauna get a lot of attention. There are probably thousands of species that are less likable that are in the same situation.
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A B C 3 years ago
This "a student" was George Dantzig while he was studying at Berkeley in 1939.
Rissie 3 years ago
Till this day his ghost still roams the halls and can be heard saying how stupid he feels for misunderstanding the assignment...
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Caroline Overill 3 years ago
There is a castle in England called Berkeley castle. This is the family of the founder of Berkeley university. The gentleman who founded it did not believe in education for women. He thought their poor little brains would explode. Therefore any woman who graduates from Berkeley should not only be tremendously proud of herself but os also giving the founder the finger.
Cathy Carey 3 years ago
Oh, a Berkeley student? Not so surprising then, lol. Thanks for the info.
Fritz Baumeister 3 years ago
Math prodigies are like that. There's a great story of the famous mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. In primary school he apparently misbehaved and as punishment the teacher told him to add all the integers from 1 to 100 (1+2+3 ...100). He thought about it for a moment and gave the teacher the answer - 5050. When the teacher asked him how he did it, he knew he a genius on his hands. There's a trick of course. Instead of adding all the numbers up the hard way, he envisioned the series of numbers as pairs. 1+100=101, 2+99=101, 3+98=101, etc... You can see where this is going. Well you've got 50 pairs of 101 (50 X 101=5050). Easy!
Katrina Gibson 3 years ago
Yeah.... my mind still shut down and froze your answer. Lol
Load More Replies... Rissie 3 years ago
But that's the whole thing in what others perceive as genius. Seeing underlying patterns that change it from just a dumb task, to a more efficient task. In hindsight it's easy, but if noone tells you to look at it that way, you don't just come up with it as a child with no experience in that field.
Cat Crazy Lady 3 years ago
"Good Will Hunting the 1997 film about a Boston child prodigy William Hunting, to a near 90% overlap, was based on the true life story of IQ 225+ cited Boston 'Southie' William Sidis."
Brian Bennett 3 years ago
He's doing Math - I would still be Good Will Hunting for the damn answers!
Fritz Baumeister 3 years ago (edited)
'Good Will Hunting' is very loosely based on real people, but if you like real stories like this, you should check out 'The Man Who Knew Infinity' (2015). It's a biopic about a real-life Indian math wiz who gets a scholarship to go to Cambridge. It stars Dev Patel (of 'Slumdog Millionaire' fame) and Jeremy Irons as his professor/mentor.
Tristan Kenyon 3 years ago
No those are not Mutant Spider drawings , they are drawings of different styles of buttholes
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Teresa Taylor 3 years ago
No. It's Will Hunting. He's a custodian at a Boston college. He solves math equations on the side for kicks.
Betsy Novack 3 years ago
Still waters run deep. We all learn in different ways. The fear of not learning the way everybody else does, even though we're right sometimes just isn't worth defending. Because we don't want to defend the accusations of cheating etc. Nothing is an exact science or doesn't evolve through or effort to understand more. I guess that's why it's so hard for me to accept the Bible being what we allow to judge others. Or pick and choose to work for us. I can't wait for the day I can meet God and ask how he kept his patience.
Traniel Ditasavit 3 years ago
I hate when they put facts with no specifics (students name, year, what the problems were). It makes them seem fake and dumb. Thx A B C for letting us know.
Leonardo Colle 3 years ago
Its kind of funny if you think... He did all this brilliant work, but because he mistook his homework. to do this kind of mistake, i guess his homeworks were pretty hardcore stuff
Mewregaurd Hissyfit 3 years ago
Give a problem to a student. They could solve it. You never know.
Cat Crazy Lady 3 years ago (edited)
It's Matt Damon. It's from the movie Will Hunting or Good Will Hunting. He plays the student and Stellan Skarsgård plays the teacher.
Load More Replies... RifleReptiles 3 years ago
Ah, that makes sense. I've never seen the movie, but I thought it looked eerily like him 😂
WoodenLion 3 years ago
Good Will Hunting - it's a good movie i think.- also "It's a beautiful mind" - on a true story.
Davo gifman 3 years ago
The answer has been the top comment two hours before you added your comment.🤣
Load More Replies... Littlebunnyfufu 3 years ago
See other posts, someone wrote the name and the snopes article that fact checks it as true.
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Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago
My kid goes to a Montessori school where students clean up everyday. I think it's a good idea - helps kids feel responsible for their school, which helps them become responsible citizens.
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![🚭 The Plans Include The Gradual Increase Of The Legal Smoking Age, Which Could Extend To A Ban On The Sale Of Cigarettes And Tobacco Products To Anyone Born After 2004, Making Smoking Effectively Illegal For That Generation.
also Under Consideration Was A Significant Reduction In The Level Of Nicotine Allowed In Tobacco Products, Prohibiting Filters, Setting A Minimum Price For Tobacco, And Restricting The Locations Where Tobacco And Cigarettes Can Be Sold.
“We Need A New Approach,” Associate Health Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall Said, Announcing The Changes. “About 4,500 New Zealanders Die Every Year From Tobacco, And We Need To Make Accelerated Progress To Be Able To Reach That Goal [of Smokefree 2025]. Business-As-Usual Without A Tobacco Control Program Won’t Get Us There.”
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🇳🇿 The Proposals Were Welcomed By A Number Of Public Health Organizations. “This Proposal Goes Beyond Assisting People To Quit,” Cancer Society Chief Executive Lucy Elwood Said In A Statement. She Noted That The Number Of Tobacco Retailers Was Four Times Higher In Low-Income Communities, Where Smoking Rates Were Highest.
“These Glaring Inequities Are Why We Need To Protect Future Generations From The Harms Of Tobacco,” Elwood Said. “Tobacco Is The Most Harmful Consumer Product In History And Needs To Be Phased Out.”
shane Kawenata Bradbrook, A Long- Term Advocate For Smoke-Free Māori Communities, Said:
“For Too Long The Tobacco Industry Has Been Addicting Our People, Fleecing Them Of Their Money Before We Have To Bury Them In Urupa [burial Grounds] All Over This Land. I Am Looking Forward To Truly Making This A Sunset Industry In This Corner Of The World.”
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source: Link In Our Bio. 🔗](https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/CWizmzxNQCs-png__880.jpg "🚭 The Plans Include The Gradual Increase Of The Legal Smoking Age, Which Could Extend To A Ban On The Sale Of Cigarettes And Tobacco Products To Anyone Born After 2004, Making Smoking Effectively Illegal For That Generation.
also Under Consideration Was A Significant Reduction In The Level Of Nicotine Allowed In Tobacco Products, Prohibiting Filters, Setting A Minimum Price For Tobacco, And Restricting The Locations Where Tobacco And Cigarettes Can Be Sold.
“We Need A New Approach,” Associate Health Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall Said, Announcing The Changes. “About 4,500 New Zealanders Die Every Year From Tobacco, And We Need To Make Accelerated Progress To Be Able To Reach That Goal [of Smokefree 2025]. Business-As-Usual Without A Tobacco Control Program Won’t Get Us There.”
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🇳🇿 The Proposals Were Welcomed By A Number Of Public Health Organizations. “This Proposal Goes Beyond Assisting People To Quit,” Cancer Society Chief Executive Lucy Elwood Said In A Statement. She Noted That The Number Of Tobacco Retailers Was Four Times Higher In Low-Income Communities, Where Smoking Rates Were Highest.
“These Glaring Inequities Are Why We Need To Protect Future Generations From The Harms Of Tobacco,” Elwood Said. “Tobacco Is The Most Harmful Consumer Product In History And Needs To Be Phased Out.”
shane Kawenata Bradbrook, A Long- Term Advocate For Smoke-Free Māori Communities, Said:
“For Too Long The Tobacco Industry Has Been Addicting Our People, Fleecing Them Of Their Money Before We Have To Bury Them In Urupa [burial Grounds] All Over This Land. I Am Looking Forward To Truly Making This A Sunset Industry In This Corner Of The World.”
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source: Link In Our Bio. 🔗")
Sarah 3 years ago
I'm always torn when it comes to things like this. On the one hand, I don't feel like the government should tell us "you can't do that because it isn't good for you". Your not my mom, back off. Sugar isn't good for me either. The last person I dated wasn't good for me. On the other hand, I'm all for the government telling us it's the law to wear a seatbelt, or that my doctor can't smoke crack before he operates on me. And this, Ladies and Gentlemen, is why I am not a politician. Glad I'm not the one who has to make the decisions on these kinds of things!
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linlintong 3 years ago
I remember watching this on tv with my dad before he passed away. We were so happy for him!
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Very Bored Panda 3 years ago
Then I pity those who don't. I have no emotional stability at all
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Cactus McCoy 3 years ago
Fun fact: Men who kiss other peoples' wifes befor going to work live an average of 5 years shorter.
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Very Bored Panda 3 years ago
That's so sad ☹️. Glad they managed to convince her not to. Not just because she's a celeb, but because she's a human
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Kesam 3 years ago
Several of these so-called "facts" are misleading, unverified rumours, or downright false. Looks like Guff is not a source you can trust. But that might not be surprising coming from a content company that sells "hyper-engagement" and churning out content that is primarily designed to "drive human emotions." 👎
s. vitkovitsky 3 years ago
Well, 'guff' is olde slang for 'nonsense, lies, baloney' so the veracity of these assertions is to be doubted. Sez so right on the label.
Gavin Johnson 3 years ago
But is your fact about Guff a fact? Or is it a double bluff? Is your source verified and reliable? The truth is out there…… 😀
Jon S. 3 years ago
I very much welcome this addition. Extra, easy to access context is always a boon.
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Gianna 3 years ago
I would say most of these "facts" are full of crap! They have no proof of what they are saying and most of them are so ridiculous that I had to stop scrolling.
RebeccaRabel 3 years ago
But i find the news here interesting and sometimes double check on other sites to verify it if its legit
NevadaJo 3 years ago
This is the type of post I like... I get so disappointed when the title of a post is awesome but then you open it and it's nothing but words... pictures add a little pizazz especially when it refers to a person or place so that way you can get a better idea of what it looks like...
Sleepyhead 3 years ago
This was surprisingly sad, but I'm happy to have seen it. If you don't tear up Googling "Pocho crocodile funeral", you're not really living.
Brian Bennett 3 years ago
In scrolling through answers a lot of down votes were given if the interesting facts were not interesting and it was so stated!
Kesam 3 years ago
Several of these so-called "facts" are misleading, unverified rumours, or downright false. Looks like Guff is not a source you can trust. But that might not be surprising coming from a content company that sells "hyper-engagement" and churning out content that is primarily designed to "drive human emotions." 👎
s. vitkovitsky 3 years ago
Well, 'guff' is olde slang for 'nonsense, lies, baloney' so the veracity of these assertions is to be doubted. Sez so right on the label.
Gavin Johnson 3 years ago
But is your fact about Guff a fact? Or is it a double bluff? Is your source verified and reliable? The truth is out there…… 😀
Jon S. 3 years ago
I very much welcome this addition. Extra, easy to access context is always a boon.
Load More Replies... Gianna 3 years ago
I would say most of these "facts" are full of crap! They have no proof of what they are saying and most of them are so ridiculous that I had to stop scrolling.
RebeccaRabel 3 years ago
But i find the news here interesting and sometimes double check on other sites to verify it if its legit
NevadaJo 3 years ago
This is the type of post I like... I get so disappointed when the title of a post is awesome but then you open it and it's nothing but words... pictures add a little pizazz especially when it refers to a person or place so that way you can get a better idea of what it looks like...
Sleepyhead 3 years ago
This was surprisingly sad, but I'm happy to have seen it. If you don't tear up Googling "Pocho crocodile funeral", you're not really living.
Brian Bennett 3 years ago
In scrolling through answers a lot of down votes were given if the interesting facts were not interesting and it was so stated!
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