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It’s a proven fact that learning something new is good for you. Some studies have found that lifelong learning boosts happiness, memory, confidence and productivity. It also helps beat boredom. The best thing is you don’t have to leave home to learn something new. Today, you don't even need to get out of bed, or off the couch. Just grab a cup of coffee and keep reading.

Bored Panda came across a cool Instagram account called Interestingash.ck. It shares amazing facts about anything and everything. It has over 2 million followers, and hundreds of educational posts. If you’re looking to learn something new, you might have come to the right place. From animals, to history, to movie trivia, there’s something for everyone. Keep scrolling for a list of our favorite facts from the page, and don’t forget to upvote yours.

Dogs can smell when we’ll be back home. It’s just one of many facts from the Instagram page that caught our attention. So we sniffed a little more. Many of us already know that dogs have a keen sense of smell. But it turns out they have a sense of time too. Just not in the same way we do. 

Alexandra Horowitz is a researcher with a special interest in mutts. In her book, "Being A Dog" Horowitz discusses how dogs are able to smell the “passage of time” by the intensity of a scent. Your scent is strongest when you are home. It weakens after you walk out the door and continues to fade throughout the day. Your furkid uses the level of your scent to predict your return.

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Horowitz also writes that the movement of a scent can inform a dog about the past and the future. A weak scent that’s low to the ground shows that someone has passed by. A stronger scent wafting in the air signals someone could be saying hello soon.

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het
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1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Clean meaning d**g free, not that Usain Bolt was the only runner to have had a shower.

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PetMD also reports that dogs can sense time. “However, they don’t know how many specific hours, days, or weeks have gone by. The theory of scent distribution and a dog’s ability to remember something based on scent is called olfactory memory,” wrote Erika Lessa on the site. “It’s plausible that a dog can track short amounts of time by the strength of an odor and use olfactory memory for long-term time tracking.”

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1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

LOL! Dammit, I read this seriously until "if the bag is wetted first." UPDATE: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I SHOULD"VE been thrown by the 0.0000000013 foot pounds I kinda skipped over trying to comprehend the number because OOH! Cute scary bird!

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We were also interested to learn more about John Thompson. He’s the guy who lost both arms in a freak farming accident. But still managed to dial emergency services by using a pencil between his lips. AgWeek tracked Thompson down two decades after the accident to find out how he’s doing. “On Saturday morning, Jan. 11, 1992, Thompson was unloading pig feed with a grain auger and playing with the dog when he somehow got too close to the power takeoff shaft (PTO), which didn’t have a safety shield on it,” reported the agriculture magazine.

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Thompson told them during the interview that his shirt wasn't tucked in, and it's suspected it got twisted in the PTO shaft. The last thing he remembers was spinning on the shaft. He woke later to his dog licking his face and both arms gone. Thompson walked 100 yards to the house. And used his mouth to turn the doorknob, and a pencil to dial the phone to get help. “Then he sat in the bathtub to prevent blood from getting on his mom’s new carpet,” reports the magazine.

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bruddah IZ! His funeral stopped traffic for a large portion of the island. Rightly so.

cerinamroth
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't listen to this any more. It was played at the funeral of a wee boy who was a family friend as his little coffin was taken out of the church. My heart aches for them every single day.

T Barth
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yup, I hear this song and I immediately think of Dr. Carter reading the letter and Dr. Greene on the bed in Hawaii. Even after all these years.

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TheBlueBitterfly
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I sang that song to both my kids (along with the Beer Barrel Polka) to both my kids aa lullabies. Thanks to my mom. It will always remind me of her.

StrangeOne
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think he died soon after recording, and he knew he didn't have much longer to live.

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And sadly passed not long after. It's his only recording and I recommend you listen to him if you haven't but have some tissues handy. https://youtu.be/V1bFr2SWP1I?si=QTmbgmadwiKJUDmh

Zoey Bear
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That was the song I picked for the father daughter dance at my wedding. It's an amazing song.

MsPlants
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I Lava You is about his wife and him. its an homage to his legend in Hawaii

RL R
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of the most annoying noises you will ever hear. "Oh because I will use it in the movie and it will suggest happiness to the pavlovian conditioned audiences"...ugh.

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Thompson was put into a coma for four weeks and almost died after contracting an infection. He miraculously made it through more surgery and months of rehabilitation. Thompson gave up farming for real estate once he’d recovered. But couldn’t receive a regular paycheck because of his disability insurance. He revealed that he’s suffered from depression for decades.

At the time of the interview, Thompson had written a book called “Home in One Piece", and was working on turning it into a screenplay. He was also doing weightlifting but said his big passion is singing. "It's just something that always brought me joy,” he said. “I mean, even growing up on the farm, I always looked forward to when the grain bins were empty and go inside the grain bin and sing because the acoustics were just unbelievable.”

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If you’re a Breaking Bad fan, you might recognise Giancarlo Esposito in the list of interesting facts. The Danish-born American actor and director plays the role of Gus Fring in the series. Celebrity Networth reports that he has a net worth of around $4 million. But he’s had to work hard to get to this point. As the Insta post states, Esposito declared bankruptcy after his divorce. And even considered arranging his death so his children could get the policy payout.

The actor made an appearance on SiriusXM’s Jim & Sam show earlier this year. He was open and honest about his financial struggles. “If I got somebody to knock me off, death through misadventure, they would get the insurance,” he said. “I had four kids. I wanted them to have a life. It was a hard moment in time.”

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember when this story came out. After placing the call, he went and waited for help sitting in the bathtub so he wouldn’t get blood on the carpet.

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Fortunately for his family and fans, Esposito didn’t follow through. “I started to think, that’s not viable because the pain I would cause them would be lifelong, and lifelong trauma that would just extend the generational trauma with which I’m trying to move away from,” he said on the show. “The light at the end of the tunnel was Breaking Bad. I had a few little things before to start to recover, but Breaking Bad was the light.”

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sorry he was that desperate, but glad he got the life-saving role. The first of many times he appreciably enhanced productions with his presence.

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We certainly learned a few new things from the interestingash.ck page today. And we’ll definitely be sharing our newfound knowledge around the dinner table tonight. Which of the interesting facts on this list did you already know? And which of them surprised you the most? Let us know in the comments. And don’t forget to upvote your favorites.

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same time everyday my boy will be waiting at the front door waiting for his dad.

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1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've read this story. I find it terribly troubling for the chimp and child both. It shouldn't have been allowed.

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It may be that it was "just another Tuesday" but the point was that it wasn't "just another Tuesday" for DiCaprio (thankfully). When I studied interpreting at uni, we had to do some interpreting practice using some of Hitler's speeches. (He had an unusual oratory style.) As a Jewish person, I also found that I had to stop occasionally. We had an in-depth discussion of interpreting ethics after the session, which was helpful in processing it.

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

More a case of lack of government funding, dismissal of animated films and focus on drama than comedy in film than national debate.

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well we all know this is wrong, the Earth is flat, the Lizard overlords want us to believe the Earth is a globe.

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Odd strategy. Didn't that cause a shortage, making the value of poached ivory go up, and giving poachers more incentive?

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1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A famous actor in Hollywood's golden age - George Raft - often played gangsters. In fact, he really was a gangster. https://ronbase.wordpress.com/2015/07/02/black-snake-the-forgotten-life-of-george-raft/

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