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50 Random Facts About The World You Probably Didn’t Know, As Shared By This Wildly Popular Instagram Account
The Instagram account 'Factbytes' has earned itself 522,000 followers by sharing random trivia about the world. And while numbers alone aren't always indicative of quality content, you have to admit, such a high figure surely looks intriguing.
Why do so many people want to see this account's posts? Well, the main reason is probably diversity. From the Earth's geography to human behavior, 'Factbytes' touches on a wide variety of topics. So we decided to compile some of its most popular uploads and ask you if you think it's worth half a million fans.
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#1
Serial pacifist 3 years ago
Hey, potholes mean that at least you have the road.
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Molly Whuppie 3 years ago
For anyone curious, it's being trialed in regional Victoria in Australia.
Robert Trebor 3 years ago
Some utility or other in New Orleans is using glow tape for obstructions on sidewalks. Handy.
Will Cable 3 years ago
Put glow in the dark stickers on door/window frames just in case of emergency that lights go out or a fire in the house and the electric goes out. at least you can see a route out of the place
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#2
Clément D. 3 years ago
I honestly don't understand the picture. Am I looking at a Walrus but? Nostrils? where are the eyes? hiding its face behind hands? (*paws?) Jabba the butt? please help.
According to Steven Wooding, who is a member of the Omni Calculator project and the Institute of Physics in the United Kingdom, and the founder of the Weird Units Converter, there's something universally human about our fascination with trivia.
Speaking for Bored Panda's publication on 'WTF Facts', a similar internet project to 'Factbytes', Wooding said that people like to help others by sharing their knowledge; that's why society values intelligence so much. Essentially, these interactions boil down to delivery.
"It can be a negative behavior if someone uses their superior intelligence to belittle other people," he said.
"As with most things, we need to find a happy balance. Looking at the big picture, humans have had extraordinary success in evolutionary terms by sharing knowledge," he said that there's a correlation between the two.
#3
Ayrendal 3 years ago (edited)
But … did you know this high school science project was completed in 2012. The four girls would have graduated from University by now, if their plans came to fruition. One wanted to study in Australia, another in Canada, one in Guyana, and the fourth at Harvard. And it’s sad their invention wasn’t pushed for further development - it was a electrolytic cell, with urine in the (recycled) car battery. The yellow substance you can see in the cylinder placed at the front, so it looks like urine? Not urine. It’s Borax, used to dry the hydrogen created in the electrolytic reaction in the car battery (cell) - because they say they let “wet” hydrogen got in during their first attempts and that, combined with an incorrect valve … blew everything up. Wet hydrogen is also apparently very bad for the generator. Their aim was to reduce carbon dioxide during power production, because Nigerians have a bad record of dying from poisoning from generator fumes trying to power their homes.
Mark Bayliss 3 years ago
No, I think you will find that it s air cooled ;-)
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Crazy Meerkat Lady 3 years ago
When can we buy it? I always read about these inventions but never see any of them for sale somewhere.
#4
Katy McMouse 3 years ago
I can't believe no one has said this yet, so, here I go...wait for it...yup!... it's... TA DA!...pigs! in! a! blanket!
Moezzzz 3 years ago
You win today. Like, everything. You win everything today!
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Therese Ernholdt 3 years ago
This one is only true to an extent. Pictures are from an experiment to make tigers in captivity more docile. Pictures are real but there was no depressed tiger mommy. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/07/31/fact-check-female-tiger-did-not-adopt-piglets-zoo-experiment/5400661001/
glowworm2 3 years ago
I was going to mention the same thing if no one else did first. The photo is real but the story isn't.
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DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
"I can't quite put my paw on it Lauren but your kids don't act like tigers" "Shut up Carla, these are my babies!"
#5
Monday 3 years ago
And yet "Alpha Males" instead try to gather as many women as possible and disrespect them at every turn...only to be surprised when nobody wants them.
Henrik Schmidt 3 years ago
Whereas the "alpha male" concept was first observed in wolves, it has since been completely debunked, even by the scientist who came up with it in the first place. But human "alpha males" still think they are the greatest since sliced bread, when in fact they are just deluded, narcissistic sociopaths.
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We get a lot out of it. For example, experts say that playing trivia games can provide a dopamine rush much like gambling, but without the negative effects.
Whether we're playing Trivial Pursuit at home or attending a pub quiz night, the basic premise remains the same: we experience the thrill of providing correct answers to questions about lesser-known facts.
#6
Crystal Kelley 3 years ago
This is the best thing I've seen in a long time. Awww be still my ♥
radioactivecandy (they/them) 3 years ago
me trying to get my phone out from the crack between my bed and the wall
#7
We_Are_Watching_You 3 years ago
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#8
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Absolutely. At the same time, how lucky are we to be able to see this?
Load More Replies... Headless Roach 3 years ago
Been there, It's absolutely overwhelming (by size and by beauty, for that matter)
Anna Te 3 years ago
Wow, please tell us, are there also special plants and animals? Is the sun shining in at some point or is it all underground?
Load More Replies... The Radio Demon 3 years ago
Don't Legolas and Aragorn have BP accounts? where are they?
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The Idaho Potato 3 years ago
But what about the big Vernoikyka (?) cave in Georgia (the country)?
texasvet79 3 years ago
Yup and it was used as a base of HQ for the north Vietnamese during Vietnam
RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
It's = contraction of it is. It's = belonging to it. The post was correct. I do appreciate your confidence though.
Load More Replies... Robert Trebor 3 years ago
Even on the largest ship the prayer is"O Lord Thy sea is so great and my boat is so small"
#9
Wubba Lubba Dub Dub 3 years ago
I would totally rock a pair of these jeans! "What happened to your jeans?" "Oh they got mauled by a lion"
Mrs Irish Mom 3 years ago
Better job then the shops do and they prob love playing wit the jeans, know i woild
"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.”
#10
Jellicle bat 3 years ago
Don't they have different movies? Are the toilets available without buying a ticket? If not, what if someone has to go but doesn't have a Ticket? So many questions
Zedrapazia 3 years ago
I'm Swiss, they only play advertisements for movies that the cinema offers at the moment or soon.
Load More Replies... Zedrapazia 3 years ago
Wrong! I live in the German part of Switzerland and I've seen those before (the Arena cinemas have them), but they play advertisements, not a specific movie.
Ayrendal 3 years ago
Ah, OK, if it’s just an ad-serving device, that’s cruel, unusual and opportunistic. I’ve felt compelled (but resisted) to punch the REALLY LOUD ad serving screens at petrol stations here, and I’m 90% deaf in one ear, 60% in the other. So I’d hate to think how intrusive they are to someone with decent hearing. Couldn’t imaging needing to shout over the top of them to get the kids to go in & pay, or get you a coffee or whatever. They’re just rude.
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Crystal Kelley 3 years ago
Ok, I'm curious.... do they only play one movie in the theater at a time? If not, how do they know which you're watching? This is pretty cool.
Jane Thorne-gutierrez 3 years ago
No they don't! We live in the French area of Switzerland for a few months every year( for 45 years now) . My husband does research there. Just not so.
Headless Roach 3 years ago
Then there's that guy in the next stall that crunches on popcorn too loud.
#11
Solidhog 3 years ago
I thought that was common knowledge? You see lots of pictures of them connecting the refuelling trucks to the wings. Or just a geek and engineer thing?
Emily M 3 years ago
Same, I am really not surprised by this?? For one, the engines that use the fuel are on the wings?? Plus fuel thats not stored in wings is literally stored under the plane so like the alternative is you sitting on top of it which I don't think is any less unsettling
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Will Cable 3 years ago
If hunters like the sport so much, I wonder how they would feel of they were the target
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Buren 3 years ago (edited)
Crying invites a lot of attention that would put more stress on my mind and heart
Praecordia 3 years ago
Not if you cry in private. Like the shower or something.
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FabulousMari 3 years ago
I learned how to suppress my emotions and not cry several years ago and now I'm trying to learn how to cry again and how to properly tap into those emotions. It's not easy but suppression definitely didn't make anything any better. 0/10 Do not recommend
Alex de Lannoy 3 years ago
I can only cry when I have onions near my face. Those are not the kind of tears you’re writing about. (We humans have more than one kind of tears).
Kounios said the benefits can also be compared to those of playing a video game.
"I don’t think there are any pitfalls," he said. "Like anything else that’s fun, it takes up time," he explained.
#14
Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the luckiest man alive has never been in a plane crash.
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The next line could have read. He washed his clothes to get rid of the smell of aviation fuel and smoke and forgot to remove the lottery ticket from his pocket.
𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖘𝖆𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖟𝖊𝖗 3 years ago
thats one lucky man~ i would have died the from being slapped in the head by a near by passenger.
Headless Roach 3 years ago (edited)
That is a big L in his LUCK. I usually have an F, when it comes to lottery
#15
Monday 3 years ago
Campbell is a pretty common last name, he could probably get away with it.
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Ayrendal 3 years ago
Smart man. Couldn’t think of anything worse than relatives that you’ve had a mutual non-contact period of 20+ years suddenly emerging from the woodwork with “medical” issues, etc.
Wonderful 3 years ago
Smart. I would definitely do this. Dealing with the aftermath of a relative dying and they had a full house of stuff and a good chunk of change in the bank. Scummy relatives slithered out of the wood work to claim everything they could find that might be worth anything. A cousins family even broke into the house while the funeral was happening and took a lot of stuff. They denied it left and right and tried to pretend it wasn't them. Then the doorbell camera shut them up quick and we got most of everything they took back. It was disgusting behavior. Make a will people! Be sure to give and include everyone you can. Just one item each or like $5 to this cousin and 3 beanie babies and $10 to this niece. If they are in the will then they can't say they were supposed to get 50k and yada yada causing more stress and possible lawyers fees. I'm no expert in this but just telling you what we had to deal with and what was told to us.
Fenchurch 3 years ago
There are also clauses that say anyone who challenges the will gets $1. So if they were willed money but think they deserve more, they automatically get $1. I know someone who is doing this because she has a huge family and most of them are jerks
Load More Replies... Will Cable 3 years ago
Suddenly people were searching internet history to look for the purchase of masks.
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Ayrendal 3 years ago (edited)
Oh boy, despite this being as cute AF, it’s also as OLD AF. This is LaLa, a male penguin who even the quickest internet search will tell you was a “star” in his adopted home in Japan in the 1990s after being accidentally caught in a fishing net. Once rehabilitated by a family he decided to stay, so was built a basement “cold room” and taught how to go to the market to collect his own fish, before returning to the house. LaLa was one of the first internet stars, this bit of film having done the rounds for more than 25 years. He died, apparently of old age, in 1996.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
I used to love watching the video of him. He's so cute waddling along and getting his fish; they just put one in his backpack and he goes home 😊
#17
Monday 3 years ago
And the sad thing is....the voice we hear on recordings is the same one other people hear when we talk. How do I still have friends?
Anonymous 3 years ago
Because your friendship is worth everything. May your friendship last forever 💝
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TotallyNOTaFox 3 years ago
There is a reason why I am a very silent person, and my voice is the biggest one
Alex de Lannoy 3 years ago
Your skull is an acoustic box and when you hear yourself talk in a recording, that same voice doesn’t have the same frequencies that you expect it to have. The frequencies are the same, but you’re missing the full acoustics of your skull.
Spannidandoolar 3 years ago
This, your voice sounds lower to you when you speak so your recorded voice always sounds higher pitched than you expect
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Diphylleia Grayi 3 years ago
Oh Almighty God, this is the most accurate fact about me. Mine is like 10 years old in a nearly 27 to. I have petty aunts that don't let me forget it :-!
𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖘𝖆𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖟𝖊𝖗 3 years ago
sometimes i wonder how people talk to me. like wtf to i sound like a drowning rat?!
A librarian from California, Sarah Kishler, loves trivia games and enjoys attending a monthly pub trivia night in which a team of librarians participate.
"Learning facts so that I can get better at trivia is definitely a passion of mine," she also told Healthline. "Getting a question right is definitely very satisfying to me."
#18
kathoco 3 years ago
Many European countries offer free or nearly free university studies. Also, I’m sure students have to apply and be accepted. The title makes it sound like they can just show up. And given the cost of living in Norway, it may still be too expensive for many.
Stein-Inge Kummeneje 3 years ago
The cost of living could be a bump in the road, but a part time job of about 10 hours a week in Norway is enough to get by. Also, if you're American, it will still be WAY cheaper than studying at home.
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Donkeywheel 3 years ago
This is true for pretty much every EU countries (France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, etc.) where you’ll pay between 0 and 1000 euros max for the whole year) But you need to be accepted first, and yes the cost of living could be huge, especially in Norway that is one of the most expensive countries in the world (thanks oil)
Diphylleia Grayi 3 years ago
I wanted to study a master's degree in France since 16 but a couple of years ago they would ride from 330 euros per year to 3300, it is like half of my University's degree. So sad because there is no better or worse University there.
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Boreddd🇺🇦 3 years ago
Off to norway I go...after I finish middle school(1year left yay) and then high school
Moezzzz 3 years ago
I believe in you!! Don't ever forget this post; I don't know you personally, but I really hope and pray you get to study somewhere that won't put you in so much debt that you'll be paying off loans until your 40s! (Also, it's just cool to get out of the country you're in- see the world, experience new things, meet awesome people). YOU GOT THIS!!
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Jorge Ricaldoni 3 years ago
Argentina's public universities are open and fre for anyone in the world, no matter how old you are. The only issue is that both classes and examinations are both in Spanish.
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Kosnian 3 years ago
Trust the Japanese to do those amazing things successfully and to make them look like art too.
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Tatiana Kouzmanoff 3 years ago
Seems wasteful. I wonder how man new trees you could plant for the cost to move one? Plus, the tree could be used to make useful products. Plant 2 trees for every one you harvest.
Fenchurch 3 years ago
Not if it takes hundreds of years to grow that big. Old growth trees have their own value
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Ludwig Michiel 3 years ago
They were just playing a slightly bloodier version of chess boxing: https://youtu.be/7MBcs5Z4KC4
Headless Roach 3 years ago
The best players win by talent. When that's not an option, brute force works pretty well, too.
#21
Monday 3 years ago
Can confirm, Mondays are terrible. But don't be fooled....Tuesdays are even worse.
Bill Evs 3 years ago
Agree, Tuesday is definitely the worst. It's just a non-day. Monday is c**p but it's got some significance as it's the start of the week, Wednesday is hump day, Thursday is 'almost there' day and Friday, Saturday and Sunday are self explanatory. Tuesday is just.......there, making up the numbers like a distant uncle at a wedding you were guilted into inviting.
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karl briggs 3 years ago
Everyone always asks me to tell them why I dont like Mondays. But i simply tell them, I don't like Mondays!
Shinebright 3 years ago
I love Mondays. It’s the start of a new week and it also means I can stand by my door waiting for all my packages to arrive. Because ain’t no packages arriving on the weekend.
Over the past decade, pub trivia nights appear to have grown in popularity in parts of Europe and the United States.
Enthusiasts like Kishler enjoy getting to interact with people at these events.
She has learned that doing well at these social trivia games gives her a feeling of validation and increases her self-esteem.
#22
wifeofweasley 3 years ago
This happend to an old guy who had a small kiosk. As children my friends, my brother and I would always go their with our pocket money to get candy after school. The shop was owned by him and his wife. They were a really sweet older couple who loved kids and were always fun and welcoming. They were married for ages before she passed away due to cancer. He managed the shop alone for maybe 4 to 6 weeks. It than closed down. My mom told me he didn't wanted to have the shop on his own. Several years later I found out that he died only a few weeks after her because of his broken heart. He missed her so much that being alive wasn't an option for his body. His house was empty for years before it got sold to another family. I still walk by the building the kiosk was in when I walk my dog. It's such a sad story but they'll stay a part of my childhood memory.
Micah 3 years ago
Yup. It happened with my grandpa. He was otherwise healthy, but died less than 2 years after my grandma.
Load More Replies... Wonderful 3 years ago
I read somewhere that in older couples if the woman dies first the man usually dies shortly after but if the man dies first the woman doesn't die as soon and usually lives for years afterwards. Don't know if it's been debunked or anything but I've always found that interesting.
Wubba Lubba Dub Dub 3 years ago
I strongly believe this is what Debbie Reynolds died of when Carrie Fisher died
wifeofweasley 3 years ago
Debbie Reynolds died before Carrie Fischer did. Carrie died on the 6th of january 2017 where as Debbie died in dezember of 2016. It's only two weeks apart - very sad.
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M Kawai 3 years ago
I believe that happened to a husband who's wife was shot and killed in the Uvalde school shooting massacre.
Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago
Bullsh*t. My MIL died on April 4th from COPD, her husband died 17 days later from "nothing we can determine medically". They had been married 65 years. Maybe he just didn't want to learn how to clean the toilet? Is THAT what he died from?
#23
YukiChou 3 years ago
It's crowded with tourists, when there are no travel restrictions. Some don't even respect the signs "private area" "don't enter" and go into people's yards and look through the windows of houses.
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Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago
"Hans won't be in the office anymore; he drowned in traffic this morning."
Ayrendal 3 years ago
Plainly, *RIGHT* next to the canal is a path. This can be used for walking (a form of transport, and also required for navigation of barges through towns), and for bicycles - a well-known “other” form of transport, also highly popular in the Netherlands. This whole compilation, pinched straight from “IG Facts” or whatever it is, is TERRIBLE. So easy to debunk it’s laughable, and obviously designed for the LCD-dining table experience. Please try harder, Bored Panda - like, maybe throw an edit out occasionally?
Christine Packard Didier 3 years ago
I'm packing my things right after I type this. I would love to live there.
#24
Ian Webling 3 years ago
Technicality: Neither atheist nor agnostic are religions. Weed smoker too, though it it probably done religiously.
The Scout 3 years ago
Weed can be a religious ritual, though, as smoking "Ganja" (Marihuana) indeed plays a role in rastafari religion.
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Beck 3 years ago
I know a waitress that always showed a 20 in her book she wrote orders in. That way the people who saw it might get that idea.
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 3 years ago
Also he's not accounting for the religious group probablity distributions. E.g. I see Hindu only has a small coin, meaning probably there's not more than one Hindu in the city he is in....?
Praecordia 3 years ago
This is similar to when you put a 5$ in your own tip jar to get it going. People see money and they add to it. If they don’t see money then they tend to not add to it. Its sad that ego has filled his jars not people actually caring about the homeless. He is smart. I bet if he came back the next day and just had one bowl he would make way less.
DEW 3 years ago
I love this!! I won't give money but I will buy folks in need food. A guy standing outside the grocery store asked if I would buy him food. I told him to stay there and I'll be back. I went and bought him hot soup from the deli and a sandwich and a bottle of water. When I gave it to him he carried it like it was a breakable item.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
It won't answer the question, though, as the donation distribution is completely dependent upon the demographics of the local population. Therefore, the answer would differ depending on his location.
#25
Joshua Moore 3 years ago
Living proof of that one. I can't get my brain to shut off for nothing. 😢
Trophy Husband 3 years ago
What's wrong with overthinking? I'm glad I think things through... Though my kids don't seem to think at all at times.........
Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago
Overthinking can lead to circuitous thoughts, second guessing and anxiety. Count yourself lucky if you don't suffer from anxiety.
Load More Replies..."I love general knowledge, geography, literature, music, science trivia," Kishler said. "I just love to accumulate knowledge. I like the exercise that it gives my brain and memory."
She doesn't think of herself as a competitive person but nevertheless enjoys getting a bit amped up at trivia games. If you do too, hopefully, 'Factbytes' will help you prepare for them!
#26
Edda Kamphues 3 years ago
Yep, last time someone put a bowl of food in front of me, I leaped straight to their lap and started purring.
Amanda Rose 3 years ago
I find it hilarious that they even needed to make this a study. Of course we like eating. It's kind of an important thing! 😂
Randolph Croft 3 years ago
I learned to cook for that reason, pretty much. I liked the reversal of being a hairy-faced barbarian ex-Navy Engineer and being the one to make the soufflés. Too bad I suck at the romance part, tho.
Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago
DUDE - my motto has ALWAYS been "Feed me and I am your friend".
#27
Tor-Arne Hjellen 3 years ago
Except that is probably a sunset, at the late of winter^_^ As the northern part of Norway don't have the sun at the winter, and there is snow on the peaks, which implies it's winter. This is the midnight sun/midnattsol. https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.simpleviewcms.com%2Fsimpleview%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2Fc_fill%2Cf_jpg%2Ch_400%2Cq_65%2Cw_587%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fimages.citybreak.com%2Fimage.aspx%253FImageId%253D6130911&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.visitnorway.no%2Flistings%2Fmidnattsol-%2526%25238211%253B-fjord-foto-tur-og-grilling-northern-shots%2F210049%2F&tbnid=afOeeFbyA3-jBM&vet=12ahUKEwiWl57Z-_j6AhUF6CoKHRUwCt8QMygCegUIARDBAQ..i&docid=_r1ET43mLzkZLM&w=587&h=400&q=midnattsol&ved=2ahUKEwiWl57Z-_j6AhUF6CoKHRUwCt8QMygCegUIARDBAQ Anyway, welcome to Norway, summer or winter ^_^
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Serial pacifist 3 years ago (edited)
Akon (who once lived in Senegal and experienced life without electricity) launched Akon Lighting Africa in 2014 with the help of a billion-dollar credit line with Chinese manufacturers of solar-powered products. In just one year, Akon’s initiative succeeded in providing 14 African nations, including Guinea, Senegal, and Sierra Leone, with sustainable, solar-powered electricity via street lamps and solar panels. By 2016, Akon Lighting Africa got 100,000 solar-powered street lamps installed in 480 African communities throughout 16 nations, 1,200 solar microgrids, and 5,500 jobs created. Fast-forward to today, and Akon Lighting Africa is now responsible for providing solar-powered electricity to 25 different countries and roughly 28.8 million people who can now enjoy the same benefits of electricity that much of the world has enjoyed for decades.
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Moezzzz 3 years ago
I read about him doing this! He wanted to do something important and desperately needed for his people. I think he'd said that music was the way to do it (I'm guessing it was the way to get the money to do all this). And sure enough, he did exactly what he said! How cool!!!
Joseph Kastorff 3 years ago
Akon, a rapper, is from Senegal. He's created a foundation to help him home country.
#30
wifeofweasley 3 years ago
Imagine surviving one of the greatest maritime disasters in history, coming back to your country (probably traumatised) and being fired because you didn't die?
Monday 3 years ago
Makes you wonder if the reaction would have been different if the survivor was a woman. Women and children first was the rule so they'd probably have been more forgiving right?
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Mama Penguin 3 years ago (edited)
Masabumi Hosono was en employee of Japanese Ministry of Transport. He was sent to Russia in 1910 to study the state railway system there. His voyage home to Japan took him through England where he boarded the Titanic as a second class passenger. He was awakened by a ship steward but was not allowed to go onto the deck as they thought he was a third class passenger, which was messed up on multiple levels on the ship stewards' side. Once he was able to get on the deck, it was utter chaos and horror. He was contemplating his death while still looking for any chance of survival. He somehow made it onto a lifeboat. Aboard the Carpathia, he slept in the Smoke room. Unfortunately, he became a target of jokes by the seamen. Once home in Japan, he was hounded by the press and public as a coward and lost his job. This story has a happier ending, though. The Ministry of Transport soon reemployed him as he was too valuable. He worked for the Ministry until his death in 1939.
BetterBitterButter 3 years ago
He would have lost his job if he died so there is loss-loss situation for this guy(except he survived something terrible)
Nicola Roberts 3 years ago
It's as though they didn't think Survivor's Guilt/PTSD was enough for the poor chap.
Whitehart 3 years ago
Given the system of family honor that existed in Japan at the time, I believe (and correct me if I am wrong) he would have been expected to stay and help as many other people survive as possible, at the cost of his life. His survival suggested that he did so at the cost that someone else who could have survived died in his place
Mama Penguin 3 years ago
To be fair, a number of people would have to die so someone else could survive. The number of available lifeboats was apalling. I know what you mean, though. Also, a survivor wrote a book recounting the disaster and what he observed. The writer mistook this man for another Asian man who supposedly pushed people aside to get on a lifeboat.
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A friend of my maternal's cousin whose lived in Japan and said to me that to have survivors in thinks like these is not honourable, thus like when is,s killed the Japanese journalist, they would not ask for a ransom or something. Deep in my heart I wish this kind of think is not a ultutal practice at all in any part of the world.
#31
CPooh 3 years ago
It’s also miserably cold. Less fun than just a really long night.
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T'Mar of Vulcan 3 years ago
There's a movie about vampires attacking the town during this period; it's called "30 Days of Night" and is pretty good aside from whitewashing (most residents of Barrow are Native.)
Persephone hates Pomegranate 3 years ago
As an Alaskan, this is true. Because we are up north, the sun never sets in the summer, and we only get 3 hours of daylight in the winter. Its crazy!
#32
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
pretty sure that history can be summarised as: Thag hit Grug with club. Grug hit Thag with club.
OhnoI’vebeencensored 3 years ago
Has anything changed? "Putin hit Zelenskyy with club. Zelenskyy hit Putin with club."
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Serial pacifist 3 years ago
This is not true. Gobekli Tepe in Turkey is proof of recorded history over 10.000 years old. It doesn't add much to the overall percentage of (un)known history, but it proves that there just might be even older remains of civilization buried somewhere under our feet.
Goth mouse (they/them) 3 years ago
This isn’t true at all, theres way older cave paintings that that 🤔
Praecordia 3 years ago
Didn’t they find a finger painting that was 20,000 yrs old? Edit: I just looked it up, it was actually 64,000 thousand yrs old, but made by a neanderthal.
Raccoon Queen 3 years ago
Artifacts are still left behind, someone didn’t take World History, which goes into Stone Age history, so it’s not lost.
Jane Thorne-gutierrez 3 years ago
Archeologists are still around and they ( and science) have been able to fill in much and still do.
Maxigrod 3 years ago
This isn't true, historians doesn't take written history as the only form of recording historic events no more. In fact, the difference between prehistoric and historics ages is outdated now. There are a lot of diferent way to comunicate the past of a civilization such as images, oral history, arquitecture, i mean even knots (like the incas).
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PickleRick 3 years ago
Some of these are certainly not facts. I don't mind an opinion until someone believes theirs are fact.
Michael Largey 3 years ago (edited)
Yes. Many of these are statements of philosophy. Not facts, but sometimes more valuable.
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Ayrendal 3 years ago
Truly, not a fact. This is an opinion in a post full of opinions, decade-old “news”, information lacking in at least 50% of the posts, and some have been edited so loosely so as to fit the premise presented. Oh, that’s it - it’s called Facebook & Instagram filler content designed to elicit sympathy clicks. Borderline “alt facts”.
Headless Roach 3 years ago
That's more depressing than it should be. Enjoy lives people, whatever it means to you
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Monday 3 years ago
Progeria. It's a b***h of disease. Average lifespan for these kiddos is around 13.
Autistic apricot 3 years ago
That’s just awful, I’m guessing there’s nothing that can be done to stop or delay it?
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Cecilie Hammershøy 3 years ago
In Denmark we have a famous boy with the same illness and he just turned 25.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
As someone with multiple autoimmune diseases, I hope to live to see the day when these types of genetic fuckery diseases are eradicated.
Norman Beattie 3 years ago
and we think we have problems, there is always someone else that is worse off !
FabulousMari 3 years ago
How do we know how someone 144 years old would look? Who has lived that long? I think you're being dramatic FACTBYTES. The story is sad without knowing how old she looked.
Diphylleia Grayi 3 years ago
I have read of a trend that is people getting their"body age" through blood exams and scans. Maybe a scam or maybe accurate.
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The Radio Demon 3 years ago
No. She was biologically 18. Her body made her look like she was 144 years old. Poor girl.
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Ent Hugger 3 years ago
oh man idunno but you just gave me a great idea lol
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Donkey boi 3 years ago (edited)
They cut the bottom of the letter off, there is probably a 'P.S. This will be logged as unpaid leave'.
Ent Hugger 3 years ago
i was gonna say!!! will this be taken out of his normal vacation time? will it be unpaid??
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Solidhog 3 years ago
That's the old Google. After what emerged with their AI department and WFH seems them days are gone.
Panda Bear 3 years ago
Yep. At some point "Don't be evil" turned into "We take all your data".
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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Let me just translate that from Corporatese..."We're forcing his to take his week of vacation during this particular week, whether he wants to or not, then claiming we did something nice for an employee."
#36
Agata Konador 3 years ago
My man, on our first date told me, that all his knowledge about women is from this book 😅 and he gave me this one. I laughed hard 😂 We are together for 15 years already 😁
Anonymous 3 years ago
So happy for you Agata! May you always be together!
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Mohsie Supposie 3 years ago
There should a be sequel: "Everything Men THINK They Know About Women"! It will probably break the record for the biggest book!
DC 3 years ago
Seriously, all this "I can't understand the other gender" is utter BS. There's a thing called language. Depending on setting and counterpart, you can disguise stuff to not bear the same information to different people hearing you talk, but still, in a setting without any dangerous witnesses that may snitch out your fück ups at work, kinks and perversions, substance usage and whatnot, simply saying what you want the other one to know seems, kind of, reasonable enough to give it a shot. If the other person happens to be fluent in the same language, you know, maybe they like understand the meaning of the words you're emitting towards them and thereby get to know what you told them.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
Publishing the sequel, "Everything Men Know About Themselves", involved only a change in cover.
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DC 3 years ago
I may start to claim ownership of the sun. And send out about 7 billion bills, worldwide, to everyone who benefitted from the use of my damned sun. That's my effing sun. MINE! You are stealing! All of you!
Will Cable 3 years ago
Imagine if they had been sponsored by a chocolate company and won, the headline would have been brilliant "NASA, Mars Barred"
Paweł Duda 3 years ago
Where have no proof as of today that no one has been there. That could change.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 3 years ago (edited)
This all derives from that old joke that starts "Three men from Yemen walk into an asteroid belt ..."
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Ayrendal 3 years ago
It’s that same feeling those of us who “mined” a couple of bitcoin in 2004-2005ish, and lost the “key” to the wallet (and eventually the hard drive it was on too) had every time there was a “Bitcoin New Record!” article for a few years there.
Load More Replies... Serial pacifist 3 years ago
Also, in the early 90s, he sold his original contract for $500. In 2011 it sold for $1.59 million. The third is the charm?
Cuppa tea? 3 years ago
Maybe he has reason. Back then, there was dozens of tech startups, most of them lasted few years - mostly bankrupt, other buy cheap by others. Similar to .com boom in late 90's.
#39
Paola Anastacia (AnaPa) Pascual 3 years ago
i saw a bear's face on the back of a man's sweater running towards the forest... what's wrong with me hahaha
Audra Sisler 3 years ago
If I stare right on dogs nose I see what looks like a man running🤔lol
#40
Justme 3 years ago
Probably legal in some places - as long as he gives some kind of notice - like a tshirt that reads “you may be recorded”.
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Joshua Moon 3 years ago
Depends on country and state. In my state he would be fully legal as my state has a one party consent law.
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Sandra Laurie 3 years ago
Just a few hours ago, I read about someone turning their prosthetic eye into a torch.
Balso Steele 3 years ago
Imgur? I saw that too. Miffed that I didn't have the prosthetic option when I lost my eye. Soooo much missed cosplay opportunities. (For us yanks, she means flashlight, not a cutting or Indian's Jones-style torch).
Load More Replies... Kiana Kaslana <3 3 years ago
Imagine if it was an AI. And you could talk to it in your head. That would be kind of cool, no?
Queen Shay 3 years ago
There’s a horror movie like this I think it’s like the grace field incident or something has to do with aliens lol
#41
Virgil Blue 3 years ago
Can't buy taste, owner must think expensive = beauty
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Panda in the Fake South 3 years ago
Well s**t. I was going to buy a Bugatti today but I'm short a jet. Guess I'll have to wait for next week.
DC 3 years ago (edited)
Not only gross in itself, but from the standpoint of an engineer who specialized in internal combustion engines, a few things to throw off this monstrosity: It's engine - both the Veyron's and the current Chiron's - are by no means a masterpiece in engineering, but a mere quadruplation of a middle class performance engine of the 00's. They employ four turbochargers, and, debuting some 15 years after the Porsche 959, used them in simple parallel operation in the Veyron, only after the Chiron came into being, they employ them in a registered way, having one per row at low RPM, and switching to four eventually. This is the only cool feature the Chiron engine has. The exhaust camshafts have fixed timing in both engines. Both are not even direct injection engines, although this being the standard in every class for quite a few years now. Over-motorized cars driving progress truly was a thing, with dozens of examples beyond any doubt (multivalve ranging from 3 to 6, with 5 being the highest number having any benefit over lower ones - turbocharging - VGT in a gas engine - variable valvelift - and so on and so on), but here, we have sheer gigantomania and nothing else. Even the number of cylinders, being 16, is a stupid choice, as any number divisable by 3 is superior in fluid dynamics, especially when turbocharged. A V12 of similar displacement, with 3 turbochargers, could easily achieve the same power, if arranged the right way, with no downsides whatsoever. But V12s are "too commonplace", it was said. Sigh ... 12 is, for a passenger car engine, the highest number of cylinders up to which anything gets better at all. No one really needs a 12 cylinder, let alone 16. Having 12 instead of 16, allows to spend more money on each cylinder, and would allow to add some cool features like variable valvetrain, mulitple spark plugs to counter knock, maybe a smart arrangement of twostage valvelift, different phasing and three intake valves, ... anyway, for someone who is impressed by size and number, this might be kind of a dream engine. For someone who sees the single unit as primary unit if judgement, it's a very basic engine with some expectable priorities, and nothing really special. It's like comparing some really well cooked dish with just a really really large dish - nothing special in any of the constituent units, just a mere lot of them. Not impressed by any means. In the same timeframe and company, the 1.4 TSI Twincharged engine did impress me, both on paper and on the road.
CnCitsdynamite 3 years ago
Mazda skyactiv is more impressive to me to with variable combustion. Also an LS with built internals, a big cam, and turbo, little squirt of go fast juice, and reaching 250 mph isn’t that hard. Granted the aero is right. For its time the Veyron was a marvel but it’s so outdated.
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a fruity dream of delusion 3 years ago
this made me laugh, thinking of a garage with 8 cars lined up and then you suddenly just see a car cut in half-
Load More Replies... Trophy Husband 3 years ago
If I were given a billion dollars, I would keep some, buy a few houses so I could snow bird, and a few cars for the family and an RV. And I would give away most of it. If I had $1 trillion, I would give more away, nothing else would change. There is no possible future where I own 84 cars, 3 jets and a yacht unless everyone else in the world had their basic needs met and no one had to work. If I achieve that, then I may consider being austentacuous!
#42
Mystery Egg 3 years ago
Surely, they don't *turn into* 482 million rats. They procreate and up to 482 can be produced by then and their descendants. They don't split their bodies...
Michael Largey 3 years ago
This person and I have very different notions about what comprises "ideal".
#43
The Frenchiest Fry 3 years ago
A) not a fact, B) not necessarily true. She may be complaining, she may be looking for advice. How could you generalise something so vague and vast?
Lyone Fein 3 years ago
Usually not seeking advice. Just wanting to talk it out.
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DC 3 years ago
... how is this related to gender? I really don't see that, but maybe I'm a too feminie male or the other way round, or just stupid, ... anyway, how is it?
Brendan 3 years ago
You're not stupid. This has nothing to do with gender.
Load More Replies... RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
So when that girl said, "i have a real problem trusting you right now" she was lying. Got it, random fact creator, thanks for clearing that up. \s
#44
Amanda Rose 3 years ago
Cold water is excruciatingly painful if you have something like fibromyalgia or Reynauds. I'll take the warm water to reduce my pain, thanks.
mcborge1 3 years ago
Yes! I can't even get anything out of my freezer without wearing gloves as the cold is just too painful. :(
Load More Replies... Crazy Meerkat Lady 3 years ago
How cold must it be though? Because too cold is worse than aching muscles in my opinion.
Ezigma 3 years ago
Yep, it makes my muscles tense, not relax lol. Also I have fibromyalgia and RA (among other things) so it hurts me.
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Daria 3 years ago
When does she find multiple partners in a pride? Isn't there usually only 1 or 2 males?
Sandhya Boyd 3 years ago
Up to 3 males, and they sometimes mate outside the pride.
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Moezzzz 3 years ago
Mine, too. Only, he's a dude and the excuse? "I may not be able to have babies after all these shots the military gave me! I need a LEGACY, Moezzzz!!", as if that's supposed to make me feel better about him dippin' his wick into anything that moves....
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Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
It would have to be with multiple partners cuz one couldn't keep up! Day 3, the male is laying there, breathing heavy and exhausted, barely able to move. Female lion comes sauntering over, making sexy lion noises that translate to "Baaaaabyyyyyyy...you ready for round 127?" And the male lions eyes roll back in his head and dies...
TotallyNOTaFox 3 years ago
It's very hard for lions to get an eggcell fertilized, hence the many tries
Scott Bullock 3 years ago
yeah, this isn't accurate. a lioness would never do that. more interesting is the fact that when a male lion takes over a pride, he will kill all the cubs to get the lady's back on estrus to breed again. lionesses are found to leave the pride to protect her cubs.
#46
Marleinah Smith 3 years ago
No. I remember as a child being taught you DON'T say "and" as part of a number.
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Stinky Malinky 3 years ago
Tell me you’ve never left the US without saying you’ve never left the US. Other countries say “a hundred and one” or four hundred and twenty three”.
LilliVB 3 years ago
Just in English I assume. In Italian, and I think in most of the romances languages (as they developed all from latin), the first number with an "A" is four (quattro in Italian, quatre in french, cuatro in Spanish). In German the first number is eight (acht).
Donkey boi 3 years ago (edited)
Someone's never been to England! Here they have a number called "Ate"!
Ayrendal 3 years ago (edited)
Focus on the question, ladies, gents & others - this is how you failed the English exam. Everyone arguing about the definition of “One hundred one” and “One hundred and one” seems to be missing the point that the statement “no number between 1 and 999 contains the letter A”. “One hundred AND one” IS a valid number between 1 and 999, whether it turns out to be valued at 101 or 100.1. So, the statement that opened this discussion is wrong.
Christof Irran 3 years ago
Let's qualify the Anglo-Centric statement a little bit, shall we? And clean up the grammar?
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#48
Mrs Irish Mom 3 years ago
Its like being in a toxic relationship and making excuses for the person
Isidien Gudmundsdottir 3 years ago
And that feeling you get when you fall in love? That's common sense leaving your body.
Praecordia 3 years ago
Yep I believe it. Happened to my friend. It was just a waste of 10 yrs.
#49
Ivo H 3 years ago
AnyONE? Who said anything about people? It’s obvious that you develop magnetic powers once you start taking care of yourself.
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Praecordia 3 years ago
That sounds insane. The amount not someone stopping him.
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Will Cable 3 years ago
Imagine them saying 'goodnight' to one another like The Waltons...no one would get any sleep as it would be dawn by the time they had finished.
ArodTheHorrible 3 years ago
Maybe some of them are sisters, reducing that number? LOL
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Emily M 3 years ago
It's making me crazy how many of these are really opinions AND how many of them are specifically focused on women
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 3 years ago
Wow these aren't really facts, mostly opinions or uncited psychological claims. ugh.
Ali H M Salehuddin 3 years ago
A look of them are questionable facts. Any sources to back them up?
Emma S 3 years ago (edited)
This has got to be one of the worst articles I've ever read on this site. Most of these 'facts' are opinions with no actual evidence and some are actually worryingly encouraging toxic and abusive relationships. Talk about scraping the barrell BP.
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago (edited)
That's exactly what I was thinking... an annoying mix of facts and random opinions is bad enough but what's really concerning is that some of them encourage abusive relationships. Edit: Also a lot of toxic positivity, and advice without context (such as "not giving up"), which can be harmful too.
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YourSecretSanta 3 years ago
I stopped reading about a quarter way in, most of these are not facts
Lyrica Melody 3 years ago
This seriously reads like cut'n'paste from a click-bait ad -- was there even an attempt at fact checking? There have been other recent "Featured" posts that made me wonder if BP editors were caught snoozing, but this is the first that made me question if they're employed at all.
Emily M 3 years ago
It's making me crazy how many of these are really opinions AND how many of them are specifically focused on women
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 3 years ago
Wow these aren't really facts, mostly opinions or uncited psychological claims. ugh.
Ali H M Salehuddin 3 years ago
A look of them are questionable facts. Any sources to back them up?
Emma S 3 years ago (edited)
This has got to be one of the worst articles I've ever read on this site. Most of these 'facts' are opinions with no actual evidence and some are actually worryingly encouraging toxic and abusive relationships. Talk about scraping the barrell BP.
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago (edited)
That's exactly what I was thinking... an annoying mix of facts and random opinions is bad enough but what's really concerning is that some of them encourage abusive relationships. Edit: Also a lot of toxic positivity, and advice without context (such as "not giving up"), which can be harmful too.
Load More Replies... YourSecretSanta 3 years ago
I stopped reading about a quarter way in, most of these are not facts
Lyrica Melody 3 years ago
This seriously reads like cut'n'paste from a click-bait ad -- was there even an attempt at fact checking? There have been other recent "Featured" posts that made me wonder if BP editors were caught snoozing, but this is the first that made me question if they're employed at all.
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