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Living in the 21st century has its perks, but it often means we are awash at sea in an ocean of data, information, history, and research. Fortunately, infotainment is the lifeboat we all need. By gathering those morsels of engaging information and presenting it in a bite-sized form, it can help us learn about the world around us in a way that doesn’t put us to sleep. 

One good example of this is the “Interesting Facts” Instagram, which, unsurprisingly, focuses on curious and possibly less-known bits of trivia. So be sure to upvote your favorites as you scroll and comment what you learned. 

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

I don't understand the logic behind men being doctors and women being nurses How did it form originally?

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

Given the idiots in charge, that's accurate. The irony is that "The Green" (party) makes decisions that cause more warming instead of using better technologies

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It can be somewhat hard to pin down what exactly makes a fact “fun,” since for most of us, fun time activities are aggressively subjective. You couldn’t pay me to collect stamps, but for some, it’s a lifelong pursuit. So for me, a fun fact is that “scraunched" and "strengthed” share the title for the longest-spelled one-syllable words in English. Note that it’s not “strengthened,” but the considerably less common "strengthed,” which is the simple past tense and past participle of strength. The fact that sometimes strength can be used as a verb might be an additional fact for some, though perhaps not quite “fun.”

A fun fact that might actually be useful during, say, a trivia competition is that one mile in every five must be straight in the US interstate highway system. However, it’s a bit of a trick, as there is an urban legend stating that this was so airplanes could land on it during emergencies or times of war. While this is a happy side effect, this was not actually the intention behind this regulation. Even "worse," this law did not actually exist, though in hindsight it does not sound like a bad idea.

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This often is true for many fun facts. They simply are passed around and repeated, but bear little to no connection to reality. The good news is that you aren’t eating spiders in your sleep. Despite the fact that some male spiders really do have a thing for being eaten. Just not by you. Setting spiders aside, (thank goodness) this does demonstrate a common problem with fun facts, namely, that they often are just wrong. 

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We can start debunking at breakfast. Coffee is a staple drink in most households, offices, and elsewhere. Those seeking a heavy dose of caffeine can turn to the trusty espresso, which tastes stronger than your average cup of joe. Well, despite a truly bitter flavor profile, it actually has just as much caffeine as a regular serving of coffee. And while we are on this topic, coffee beans are not beans at all (which now probably seems painfully obvious) and are in fact just seeds. 

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Now that we’ve subtracted coffee from the legume family, we can replace it with an unlikely candidate. Peanuts, despite the name, are not nuts. They are, in fact, part of the bean family. And to screw with your understanding of foods, avocados are fruits. Regarding peanuts, people with nut allergies might be curious why this bean causes them issues. It actually has a chemical composition much closer to other tree nuts, like a walnut or almond. It does grow underground, however. 

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

When Teslar said he was going to take the most intelligent picture ever, bet they all gathered together like that to watch him take a selfie!

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Enough ruining food, let’s consider some classic myths that we all were sure of as children. We can all imagine the classic bullfighter, with a snappy outfit and red cape. The red, or so the story goes, infuriates the bull. Except, it doesn’t, as bulls are basically colorblind. If anything, the red color is to make it more visible to the audience, not the animal. Bulls, however, are territorial and somewhat aggressive and are infuriated, like Edna "E" Mode, by capes. 

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

And their hooves are glue, how else do they stick on those walls?

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

This is some Lovecraftian s**t right here. "Through its squamous and rugose eyes the caprine monstrosity saw cyclopean non-Euclidean geometry of the kind mere man could never dare to contemplate". Special goat-only angles, like three hundred and eighty degrees and squeven seconds.

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

Goats are awesome, but their pupils always freak me out a bit. :)

François Carré
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Horses do too, it's only harder to notice because their eyes are darker. It's a casual feature in prey and flight animals actually.

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

This is the one reason Goats and Sheep scare the crud out of me!

Mariele Scherzinger
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Which is probably true for most animals whose eye sight differs from human pupils.

Mary Rogers
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My understanding is that pupil shape is dependent on whether you are a prey animal or are a predator..Goats are prey, so their eyes are designed to have landscape vision and are on the sides of the head to see predators sneaking up on them. There are actually plenty of animals with similar eye shape to humans, because round pupils are a predator shape. But sometimes there are modifications, especially if the species is nocturnal. So pupil shape can go from round down to a vertical slit, in cats, for example.

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Tim Nicebutdim
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They can see the many angled ones and are emissaries for the Lloigor.

Orion Red
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Their eyscan rotate the keep them level with the horizon when they move their heads up an down to eat.

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

This is not always true. They also have round and rectangular pupils that go up and down. I have goats, they have many shapes. Goats have perfect balanced e this is why they "stick like glue" and love to be at the top of everything. I've had some "disadvantaged goat kids" in my house at various time to make sure they lived. Then when they get big they still think they should be "official house goats".

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

Is this how they manage to climb things that appear to be impossible to climb and they see just the right angles to stable themselves on?

Random Horse Nose
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Along with many other prey animals (horses, deer, zebra, sheep, elk ect.)

Ken Beattie
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hate the wording on this, it's like there are hidden angles only goats can see. What it really means is they can see a wider angle (ie: have a greater field of vision) than a human.

Stephen Smith
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What a load of rubbish, if human eyes were on the side of our heads, we would see a load more angles.

Mary Rogers
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It isn't just that the eyes are on the side of the head. The pupil shape gives them landscape vision, a necessary trait for spotting predators.

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Now, cats and dogs are often thought to be colorblind, but in reality, they do see a few shades of different pigments. They can see blue, gray, and yellow, as well as whatever can be mixed out of them. Unlike the common depictions of black and white, it’s better to think of their vision as similar to that of a person with colorblindness. This is particularly interesting since both animals have pretty different eyesight abilities, from cats who can see a fly crawling on a wall on the other side of a room, to dogs who manage to not notice the whole cat they just sat on. 

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

Heck. In the US ,if we used all the guns people seem to think they need, we could build a statue bigger than a politician's ego

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To combine the two, avoid giving your cat milk. They are lactose intolerant, though like many humans, still enjoy milk and its products. While it’s not deadly, unless, in excessive amounts, milk will cause gastrointestinal issues. For outdoor cats, it’s not a big deal, but if you own an indoor cat, be prepared for some cleanup. On the other hand, they still do get the necessary vitamins and minerals from milk and tend to enjoy drinking it, which can’t be said about all food as some are excessively picky eaters. 

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

The iceberg that struck the Titanic was 100,000 years old at the time of impact.

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

In this street only. The fire hydrant is as long as needed to reach the main water pipe. Could be shorter, could be longer.

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Now, finally, some fun facts that you can actually use. If you plan to do a coin toss that you really want to win, use a penny and bet on tails. Lincoln's head actually makes the coin unbalanced and that side is 80% more likely to face down. And if you can’t use a penny, because, honestly, who keeps spare pennies around when using a normal coin, attempt to bet on the face that was up when it’s thrown. It has a, roughly, 1% better chance of landing in your favor. And if you want to explore more fun facts from around the world, check out our other articles here, here, and here

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

One of the greatest minds ever. And died destitute and alone, because the great American capitalist didn't like him.

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

Gee, wouldn't it be nice to know at least the name of the place, let alone the reason for all those walls? Darn these lazy Panda contributors, they need to do some actual research! Baljenac/Bavljenac is a small island in the Šibenik archipelago – an islet, to be more precise, measuring only 0.14 km2 in size – that owes its peculiar nickname to a labyrinth of dry stone walls covering its entire surface. Viewed from above, oval-shaped and stamped with a unique pattern, the islet truly does resemble a fingerprint. Those dry stone walls, in their incredible total length of 23 km, were built by the residents of the neighbouring island Kaprije as demarcation lines. The villagers cultivated the entire surface of the tiny landform, planting vineyards, figs, pears and other crops on individual parcels enveloped by the walls. The crops were abandoned a couple of decades ago, but the island hasn’t been forgotten – in 2016, an initiative was launched to inscribe Baljenac in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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

Okay but this flat map doesn't accurately reflect the countries sizes on the same scale, because Russia gets enlarged by being close to the north pole and thus having to be stretched quite a bit to fit on a flat map that has the least distortion around the equator. It is still significantly bigger, but this map doesn't offer an accurate comparison.

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

This is about twenty miles away from where I live. A funny thing I like to do when in the cafe there, when the tourists ask me "how do you say the name of this place"... i reply very slowly "C-A-F-E". Sometimes they laugh, often they don't. True story.

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

I wonder why is it called mouse if the first one looked less like a mouse than the recent ones

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

The poor man had a very difficult and sad life, and was a showcase in a circus, known as the 'Alton Giant'. He had to wear leg braces his whole life, and died at the age of 22. It's a very sad story.

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

Imagine the dedication of that builder! 1.5 million beers in only 2 years. That's about a bottle every 40 seconds 24/7! Sir, I salute you! 👏

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

Some of these are not "interesting facts". This is more an interesting object that does in fact exist.

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

Did they just try out random chemical compounds in the hopes that one of them would turn green or yellow or whatever?

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

Or, in human terms: 60.96 meters long - 45.72 meters wide - 21.34 meters height.

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

Come on, this is a legend, a myth, an allegory, not a fact. This is completely natural and absolutely not man made.

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

Kind of picturing the little old guy from Monty Python's holy grail movie asking anyone crossing "What is the average velocity of a swallow?"

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

Seen a "life hack" on youtube recenlty, fill a glass with water and add few spoonfuls of salt then add a strawberry and watch closely....

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

800mm calibre, originally designed to break the Maginot line it was moved to Sevastopol where it fired 46 shots during the siege. It's also one of two build guns

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

Old news. Nowadays a similar program, also from Nvidia, can create an almost realistic video based solely on prompts.

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

This photo appears to be staged and was taken much later than 1920, the dress, stockings, and shoes are from the 1940s-50s. Each of these dryers is on its own wheeled stand, so they obviously were created to be used separately rather than as a blast furnace for some ladies face. The first hairdryer was invented in the 1890s, it was a hood-type and used an external heat source. The first handheld electric dryers came out in the early 1920s and looked surprisingly similar to the ones we have today.

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

Hate to think what the autopilot software would be like ("the crash investigation revealed that under certain circumstances the autopilot AI confused the concept of 'runway' with 'mountain'").

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

Please please please don’t shoot at them just to test this… 🙏 No animal is completely bulletproof, do not hurt animals, and stop f***ing around with guns.

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

Okay, call me a buzzkill, but I'm not too confident that if three of them can destroy a building, all that one is gonna do is "stun" you (I mean, of course, if your arms and legs are torn off, that would most definitely be stunning)

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

This is not possible since Mars has so low atmospheric pressure that any liquid water would instantly boil and became vapor. Only solid ice or water vapor

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