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 can attest to this one. My bouts of aggression and anger have dropped considerably over the years. I still find myself imagining myself causing pain to those that p**s me off, but these days it's not too often and is more of a fantasy than a desire or compulsion.
Does gritting your teeth and going, "NNNNgghAAAhhgrrr!" count as resisting your anger? I mean, it's not as if you've punched anyone/anything
I cured my road rage by making funny commentary and laughing about it. When someone drives like an idiot I'm like " oh u got someone to take your test for you" Or if someones really slow "oo I'm stuck behind speedy gonzales" It really helps me.
Load More Replies...True. Took me years to learn how to manage my anger issues all by myself (no counciling) but I see it gets easier And I calm down way quicker than on the beginning of my calming journey
It’s true. When I was younger, I had a bad temper. Cost me a lot of friendships, and so unnecessarily. By the time I was in my late twenties, I decided to do a little CBT on myself. I would recognize when I was heating up, and take a breath and decide if it was worth it—-and most of the time it wasn’t—-before speaking out. Even then, I decided to express anger calmly, using my very best diction and vocabulary to get my point across. I found I got more results that way than I did when I used to fly off the handle and use bad language. Besides, if you can be calm and cool while angry, it really pisses the other person off, and they end up looking like a crazy drama queen and losing all credibility, while I stay calm and cool and credible.
Yes, when I'm driving to work and get mad at other drivers, I try to remind myself that it's mostly that I don't like driving, and that they're all just trying to get somewhere too. It sort of works. Or I compose insulting limericks, it's hard to stay mad when trying to rhyme...
This may be true but in my case I just add another "pinhole" to my stomach lining.
Years ago at a hospital I used to work at a cardiologist would ask “Is it worth having a heart attack over? Probably not. So, calm down.”
I can attest to this wholeheartedly. Used to be a hothead and let my temper get the better of me. Sense I started taking martial arts and meditating, taking control of it has changed my life for the better.
As one who have had anger issues in my youth: you can change, but it takes dedication. My father also had anger issues as a kid. He worked on it - hard. Now he is 74, and extremley few people has ever seen him angry. I think I have seen him truly angry maybe 2 or 3 times in my 50 years. You can change.
Or, you just walk around with the angry buidling up. Gotta find an outlet in a good way
Yes. The good outlet is obviously important. Don't wallow in anger but also don't punch people just because they mad you mad
Load More Replies...And getting your body one step nearer stress related breakdown. I got this caused by not slaughtering my coworkers with an axe, no matter how much they deserved it.
Lets be really careful not to misunderstand "restist acting on your anger". Its critical to consciously acknowledge feeling angry, but then to consciously decide how to act on it. Just withholding an anger outburst and swallowing it does NOT have the effect the post is about!
And also will require years of psychotherapy from all of that repressed anger. Don't do that if you don't have to
Not repression. Just not acting on your anger! And trying to divert the anger into something else.
Load More Replies...My clients are obviously very keen on me rewiring my brain. The stuff I have to put up with..
I‘m glad I‘m not a seahorse. I can barely manage to walk in the morning.
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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