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.
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.
Uvalde police watched Morbius while kids got shot.
Load More Replies...Last year the parents of a child killed by a shooter tricked a former president of the NRA into giving a graduation commencement speech to over 3000 empty chairs. Each chair represented a kid who would have graduated in 2021 if they hadn't been shot.
nobody in the US cares about embryos. what they care about is making sure women have fewer options, and are completely dependent on men.
Load More Replies...Kids don't shoot back. Spree unalivers (omg) like to play on easy mode. Like p*****s.
The idea that police put their lives on the line every day is 100% propaganda. Almost half of the deaths are caused by motor vehicle accidents and job related illness, both of which are preventable. Even including those, It's not even in the top 10 for jobs with the most injuries/deaths (in the US)
The problem arises from the fact that the police ALSO believe this nonsense, and start to behave as if they're in a war zone, and civilians are enemy combatants. This is the root of a lot of police violence.
Load More Replies...Do I get to suggest that the shooters get a life and shoot kids’ avatars on Minecraft instead? Then the kids’ avatars will probably kill them back because the kids are more pro at something-or-the-other than the insane people
While that's tragic, it's also misleading. Quick Google searches reveal that there are approximately 700,000 police officers in the US, and there are approximately 70,000,000 children in the US. That's 100 times more kids than cops. The fact that more kids die from guns than police is not surprising. What would be more meaningful is the number of gun deaths per capita for each group.
I don't like this one. There are far more children than police. If you want to point out a fact like this, use the one that construction workers have a higher job-related mortality rate than police.
Lets keep blaming the police for everything - I get so sick of this cr*p. They are damned if they do and damned if they don't with either way
And my former principal is still probably wondering why he was fired for not listening to kids complaining about a teacher who said they have shot kids younger then them…
In the US for two years in a row more police have died of COVID than while on duty.
Republican logic - "arm the kids then, so they can defend themselves".
Because kids in the US are just important in the woman's womb but after they came out nobody cares
Yep but hey, Blue lives matter. Mourn your kids later while the cops complain about the " bad apples" for you to hear (sarcasm)
Y'know, there are some good cops in the U.S. Unfortunately, the media doesn't find them interesting.
Load More Replies...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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