Okay, anyone who doesn’t enjoy feeding their brain with fresh random facts, raise your hand! I clearly sense a silence behind the laptop, and it’s no wonder that educational social media has become so popular lately.
While wasting much of our lives on the screens, we at least get to learn something useful to pump our brain muscles or get ready for trivia battles. And if you’re one of the facticionados (does this word exist?!), you probably know the Twitter page Uber Facts very well already. With a whopping audience of 13.6 million followers, it’s an ultimate powerhouse for random knowledge nobody knew they needed.
According to the account’s description, it features “the most unimportant things you'll never need to know,” so you get the fun aspect of it. Below, we wrapped up some of the most interesting bits of knowledge shared on the page, so I leave the stage to them!
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I hope the cat got a medal and lots of treats for her good deeds
That is a great idea - encourages people to do good by showing them exactly what good they have done so far.
With educational social media accounts getting more and more popular every day, you start to wonder how many of them are actually legit. After all, no so-called “fact” shared online can be taken as it is, as we have to remind ourselves that fake news spreads six times faster on social media than facts.
Also known as fake news, these pieces of disinformation can even be used as a political tool and weapon, and poses a real danger to those with an untrained eye. Sometimes, however, the information gets so disseminated that you may not even suspect it's faulty.
So to find out how exactly an average Internet user like us can learn to separate true facts from false information, we previously spoke with Daniel Markuson. Markuson is the cybersecurity expert at NordVPN and he shared some very useful tips and insights. Markuson explained that there is no foolproof method to separate truth from misinformation.
But a general rule of thumb is to check the source’s credibility: “This particularly applies to social media platforms because they are optimized to increase engagement and lack appropriate gatekeeping features that filter out misinformation.”
When it comes to determining if the news source is credible, there are some telling signs to look for. It turns out that, often, unreliable news sources impersonate well-known ones by misspelling their names in the URL. “Similarly, they might use unconventional domain extensions instead of the usual “.com” or “.org.” In general, make sure that your news comes from established, well-known sources. These types of outlets get information directly from primary sources and must uphold their reputation.”
But honestly, who would tell their boss they´re getting an abortion? This is a very intimate topic and I am sure for assumption of costs there are some forms to fill and some Becky in accounting that would gossip to others about it. At least that would be something I wouldn´t be willing to risk..
A cat, too. I sometimes feel like the hole in my life since I lost my little guy will never heal.
When asked about the reasons why fake news has become so widespread, the cybersecurity expert said that it’s “due to factors that concern both the content of the messages and the technological foundation of platforms on which the news is proliferated.”
“Fake news is usually related to current affairs and makes remarkable, emotion-inducing claims. This, combined with the fact that social media platforms collect data on what kind of posts users spend the most time on and feed them content with similar characteristics, provides the perfect conditions for the spread of misinformation,” Daniel concluded.
I can confirm, my father cooked more often than my mother and now I am doing the ironing :-)
I always say I’m a terrible liar and clearly lie about tiny things that I won’t get in trouble for just so I can get away from the bigger trouble by lying like a mastermind. Oh man, what did I do with my life?
I‘m glad I‘m not a seahorse. I can barely manage to walk in the morning.
Once upon a time I had a 2 1/2 sloping wooded acres on a lake. Arrive walk among the trees to the lake front — Aaaah! Stress Gone
Load More Replies...Living with a view of water is usually a sign of being wealthy as a house or flat by the sea costs sh*tloads of money. Having money makes people usually happier, calmer and therefore more creative. So this might be correlation, not causality..
Right. As we math people say, you gotta disaggregate the data. Are rich people wth a sea view happier than those who don't? Are poor people? I had a very happy childhood on the east coast. When I was 10, my dad got a big promotion that necessitated us moving to the Midwest. We were a lot richer, but were we not happier. I would have traded our new affluence for those summer days on the beach and boardwalk.
Load More Replies...Can confirm. I don't live near the coast, but I solved that issue by getting a birdbath outside. 😏🐦
Yes! My dream is to live among the trees in the mountains near a stream... but for now my bird bath with a little fountain is so lovely! ⛲
Load More Replies...No ocean view, but I do get happy waking up to my bottle of water in the mornings :)
I have a small, artificial pond in the front garden (see it from my home office) and can confirm. It's not the water itself that's calming to me but the visitors: birds drinking and bathing and Fred the frog. Takes my mind off work and puts me into the moment, if I concentrate on it.
*staring at my toilet for 7 hours- I can feel the creativity flowing
The water in my bottle sits on my desk everyday and does nothing for me.
The family dogs have a water dish right outside the back door. Does that count?
I live inland, but the scientists say I may have beachfront property soon.
I lived near the coast for 14 years, loved the scenery but nearly lost my mind through boredom and loneliness.
It might be instructive to survey the lives of famous authors and painters from the past and determine what percentage lived "with a view of water." I would not be surprised to learn that very few of them enjoyed this luxury. Which goes to prove the lie of the statement.
i luv living on the river, it has never flooded here since the army corp of engineers took over the dam operations, which is 1 mile past our 🏡
I have a great view on a field of corn dancing in the wind. It’s very soothing
I can see my dogs’ paddling pool if I hang out the window. Does that count?
Not being able to afford living near water I'm wondering if staring at the toilet would have the same affect.
As a child I’ve always wanted to live near like a stream or pond, seems so tranquil
Did you know? Tony Soprano used to get a lot of calls from real life "wiseguys". Someone once called to criticize him for wearing shorts in the show. "A don never wears shorts," they said. Tony never wore shorts after.
Well cos it's normal to love and hug your kid. They feel safe and accepted.
That is actually fascinating. Alarming that it can affect the brain in such way, but fascinating nonetheless.
For the sake of context, is "mass shooting" defined as more than two people shot in the same incident, or is it a higher number? I'm not being flippant, I want to know the definition as commonly understood (there's a difference in defining murders as spree, mass and serial, and I wanted to know if shootings are the same)
Which means cashiers in the US are running 20 marathons each year, or more than 1 and a half each month.
Where was this fact when I punched that mean girl who stole my colouring book back in 1st grade?
Problem with a lot of these facts on Bored Panda is that you can't really know whether they're true.
No, but you can be certain that people believe them. Which in the modern world counts as a fact.
Load More Replies...Problem with a lot of these facts on Bored Panda is that you can't really know whether they're true.
No, but you can be certain that people believe them. Which in the modern world counts as a fact.
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