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We asked Professor Nolan about the key factors that indicate that a source or a claim made somewhere is most likely reliable. She was kind enough to shed some light on this.

"The best sources provide links to the original sources for the information they are sharing. This lets us check out the sources ourselves. If in doubt, click on those links," the expert from Seton Hall University told Bored Panda via email.

"Credible original sources should indicate the evidence behind the fact. Did it come from a study from a researcher linked to a university, medical center, or other established organization? Was the finding published in a scientific or medical journal?" she drew attention to some questions that everyone should be asking.

Moses was the first human to download info from a cloud to a tablet

UltiGamer34 Report

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365points

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago

Ha!

82points

50 Facts About The World People Accidentally Realized And Had To Share Them Online Being poor is very very very expensive. Once you have a decent amount of money and no debt, it’s very easy to live super cheap.

Once you have the money to buy things, it’s MUCH easier to say no to those things.

anon , Nathan Dumlao Report

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299points

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Kyra Heiker 1 year ago

Also when you're poor you can't stock up on things when they're on sale.

166points

Disastrous-Rise-1279 , Mika Baumeister Report

"If the original source is a .com website, you should ask if the purpose of the site is to make money. Source websites that end in .edu, .gov, or .org don't necessarily mean that they are credible, but it's a good sign!" Nolan explained to us.

"Finally, trust your gut. If it sounds too good or weird or unlikely to be true, it may not be," she said that audiences shouldn't ignore their instincts about various claims made on the internet.

In the meantime, the psychology professor shared her thoughts on what people can do to reverse the trend of shortening attention spans. Screen time is key here.

"The best thing to do is to cut back on screentime. Try to be completely offline for an hour a day and maybe even build to one day a week," she said.

50 Facts About The World People Accidentally Realized And Had To Share Them Online Difference between a million and a billion. Someone explained it in terms of time, a million seconds is 11 days and a billion seconds is almost 31 years. I knew a billion was a lot more but damn this put it in perspective.

Final score:

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electronicgogo 1 year ago

this really makes me realize just how insanely rich elon musk truly is. he's like a country & king unto himself. this is wrong on so many levels. no single person has any reason to be this wealthy.

28points

GrumpyOldMan59 , Valentine Angel Fernandez Report

50 Facts About The World People Accidentally Realized And Had To Share Them Online When I found out a large percentage of people walk around all day without an inner monologue it really messed with me. How do you think? Do you think? How do you make decisions?

Final score:

284points

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Rani Trent 1 year ago

My daughter is one of these. I'm a psychology professor and she was in one of my classes. We started talking about the internal narrator and she was sooo confused!

108points

50 Facts About The World People Accidentally Realized And Had To Share Them Online One day I sat on a tram, passing a river. There was a duck in a tree. I realised I've never seen ducks in trees. No one else seemed to notice, but I was puzzled.

Now whenever I come across something that seems intuitive but I have never considered I call it a duck in a tree.

Ol_Pasta , Quân Mạnh Report

Final score:

274points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago

"Duck in a Tree" I like that. Think I'm going to use it.

102points

"Go old school. Put your electronics out of arms reach and read a book or magazine on paper. Start training your brain not to expect to jump to something new every few minutes," the professor urged.

Nolan co-runs the 'Misinformation Desk' blog on Psychology Today and can also be found on X (formerly Twitter).

Studies have shown that our attention spans really are shrinking. Time reports that based on Gloria Mark's research, people could focus for around 2.5 minutes when using electronic devices before shifting their focus elsewhere. Now, the is down to around 47 seconds. Mark is a professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of 'Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity.'

Earth is the only planet in the observable universe that we know of whose only Moon is simultaneously 1/400th of the size and at 1/400th of the distance of its Sun, making it the only known planet capable of having perfect eclipses.

It's a very cool coincidence, if you ask me.

GonzoRouge Report

Final score:

268points

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Sergio Bicerra 1 year ago

No coincidence: Aliens!

57points

kakapoopoopeepeeshir Report

“I’ll see you around!”

“Not if I see you first!”

Took me a while to realize this meant if that person sees you first they will avoid you and you will end up not seeing them

Final score:

262points

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Jillio 1 year ago

TIL...

101points

That I’m not responsible to make other people happy

BooksRock Report

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234points

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Marilyn Russell 1 year ago

I just found out at age 54 that this compulsion comes from a traumatic childhood where we had to grow up early and try to make adults around us feel better so they could be happy and we could feel safe. Time to let this one go I think. Other people’s feelings are not our responsibility.

15points

Lisa McLendon, Ph.D., the William Allen White Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications and the Bremner Editing Center Coordinator at the University of Kansas, previously explained to Bored Panda that legitimate news sources follow "a code of ethics and standards for journalism." For one, they don't publish rumors. They also verify information and correct errors.

"The New York Times, BBC, Reuters, Associated Press (AP), etc. are examples of this, and established local newspapers are too. One way to tell is whether other news outlets cite them. For example, AP picks up and distributes content from its members, and only legitimate news outlets are members of AP," Lendon told us earlier.

"But there are 'pink slime' news outlets that have popped up in the U.S. that look similar to legitimate newspapers but push highly biased and even incorrect information. Are they even located in your community? Are they trying to push a particular agenda while trying to appear that they aren’t? For health information, make sure it comes from a hospital or doctor who does not have a vested interest in selling you something."

#10

That my girlfriend (now wife) actually, genuinely loves me. I sincerely thought I was unlovable until that point.

Puddlingon Report

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234points

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StrangeOne 1 year ago

Still tend to disbelieve someone can love me, other than my own daughter.

6points

#11

Poison dart frogs arent poisonous in captivity. I own 5 of them and anytime I tell someone I own some I always get "do you ever lick them" or "can you go k**l someone with them".. but yeah they get their poison from what they eat, and all I give them is fruit flies.

JMfury Report

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232points

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lily jones 1 year ago

This is really interesting, I looked it up and it's true

107points

Zealousideal-You-324 , Skitterphoto Report

#12

50 Facts About The World People Accidentally Realized And Had To Share Them Online Owl‘s silent flight. I mean i always knew that but a while ago was the first time i actually witnessed it. Owl came flying towards me and landed only a few feet away and you couldn‘t hear anything. Crazy.

Final score:

226points

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Suede 1 year ago

Masterfully crafted for attack

65points

Curious-Accident9189 Report

A big part of thriving in the digital age means knowing how to interact with the news, social media, and various sources. To put it very simply, you want to avoid falling prey to (and sharing) misinformation. And you want to limit the amount of time you spend in front of screens, especially when consuming negative content.

It helps to be a bit skeptical of any facts that you come across when browsing the internet. If something feels too good or bad to be true, it probably is. If you have the time, feel free to do some independent research. Cross-reference the facts using a wider range of sources, with different leanings. Consider the reliability of both the sources and the people making the claims, too. What’s their track record like? Are they looking at claims from a variety of perspectives or do they have a clear bias? Think about what the source might be trying to achieve here.

#13

You die. No matter what, how good or bad you do, how hard you fight or how fast you give up. Eventually we all just... Die. Everyone does it, and fairly quickly, no one will remember your failures or successes. Your name might live a few millenia but eventually no one cares. It's freeing. You're free to be you. F**k that person, say that dumb s**t, eat that coney, just be a person amongst uncountable billions that lived and died. It's all you, go live, laugh, love, you basic b***h.

Final score:

214points

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Little Wonder 1 year ago

To paraphase a tumblr post "I won't be forgotten if I eat the Mona Lisa"

103points

#14

50 Facts About The World People Accidentally Realized And Had To Share Them Online Sometimes is more important to like your colleagues than the actual job.

I had s****y jobs with the most amazing colleagues and had s****y colleagues and the most amazing job. I'd pick the first every time.

chr989 , fauxels Report

Final score:

209points

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Joe Publique 1 year ago

Flip-side: If you work in a job where they claim 'we're all like family here'.....run.

89points

#15

Just how much white-collar crime there is and how little of it gets prosecuted.

CherryShort2563 Report

Final score:

191points

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StrangeOne 1 year ago

Don't think of how much white crime you're likely contributing in some way by being an employee.

24points

fancybeadedplacemat Report

There’s no source in the world that is going to be right about everything they write, 100% of the time. But the difference between a reliable source and an unreliable one is that the former will do their best to correct their mistakes. To err is to be human. To fact-check, edit, and admit to having made mistakes is to be divine… at least in the media industry.

The simple truth is that people are incredibly busy in this day and age. Not everyone has the time (or, let’s be honest, the energy) to check every single fact. So it becomes necessary to rely on sources based on their reputation.

Reading cool facts, discovering new topics, staying up to date with the news, and doing research is fun, sure. But it’s important to remember to take care of your physical and mental health first and foremost. If all you ever do is browse Reddit, scroll through Instagram, and binge-watch TikTok, you may want to shift your focus. Make sure that you’re getting plenty of sleep, eating right, getting lots of exercise, and spending time with awesome people. It’s easy to get lost in screens.

#16

It still blows my mind that I can walk without thinking about moving specific muscles. Like, I can just go around thinking dumb thoughts while my body just contracts the necessary muscles to move all these appendages just because I pointed in a direction and thought “go.”

Final score:

189points

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Demongrrrrl 1 year ago

I recently read that walking backwards for at least 15 minutes a day is beneficial to cognition and arthritic knees and ankles.

88points

BeardedDominant , Daniel Torobekov Report

#17

50 Facts About The World People Accidentally Realized And Had To Share Them Online That sharks predated the rings of Saturn.

Final score:

168points

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oui.oui.croissant (ollie) 1 year ago

Ya'll I love sharks sm they get such a bad rep my little cutie murder babies<33 (but that's a stereotype they don't really murder"

46points

#18

Racism is there to distract us from the wealthy hoarding all the money and resources. I read what L B Johnson said about the lowest white man...

iceTreamTruck Report

Final score:

166points

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BrownTabby 1 year ago

I remain furious about how many people fall for it.

83points

justanotherguyhere16 , Yuting Gao Report

Zippia claims that the average person living in the United States spends 7 hours and 4 minutes looking at screens every single day. (Over half of that involves staring at the phone.) That’s slightly higher than the global average for daily screen time of 6 hours and 58 minutes. Considering that some experts recommend less than 2 hours of screen time per day, most people around the world could stand to do better.

The problem is, however, screens have become vital to professional success, as well as communication, leisure, and entertainment. Many people need computers and phones to do their jobs. So it comes down to limiting our screen time after work hours. You could, for example, delete or hide the apps that eat up most of your time, or stop bringing your phone with you to the bathroom. A lot of the time, people check their phones because they’re bored and anxious, not because they’re on the hunt for some specific info.

#19

50 Facts About The World People Accidentally Realized And Had To Share Them Online That you could legitimately travel at warp speed through the center of galaxies and never run any real risk of hitting a star. That’s how spread out space really is.

Final score:

162points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago

That's why it's called "space". There's a lot of empty space out there. When the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy collide, billions of years from now, It's unlikely ANY stars will actually collide.

68points

LongjumpingCake1924 , Nickelodeon Report

#20

50 Facts About The World People Accidentally Realized And Had To Share Them Online People are writing all these profound things while I flipped my s**t when I found out Blue on Blue’s Clues is a girl.

Final score:

159points

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Marley Nachi 1 year ago

Yeah, they call Blue 'she' during the episodes. Eg. "Let's go follow her..."

68points

BrownTabby 1 year ago

The show came out when I was in my teens and my sister was a kid so I was only peripherally aware of it. Since blue is STEREOTYPICALLY associated with boys, I can see how to a casual observer it could be almost like those brain tricks where you write the word “red” in green ink and ask people what colour was written and they say “green!”

29points

Space Cat<3 1 year ago

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2points

Sam Cook 12 months ago

And even in the opening.

0points

Nichole Harris 12 months ago

First blue... Now bluey..... Imma need to sit down

16points

Stevo 12 months ago

Waitwaitwait... Bluey is a girl too?? Today is an educational day.

20points

UndertaleLover (She/Her) 1 year ago

wait what. How did I not know that

8points

Jayjay 1 year ago

Around 1900 the colour for girls was blue, pink was for boys. Such a pity this was somehow changed around.

5points

David 1 year ago

Haha! I never knew that. I don't care but I was too old to be into the show so never really watched it except clips.

5points

Ropre 12 months ago

I always knew she was a girl....Steve called her a girl. My son loved this show when he was little and I loved it too.

4points

Angela C 12 months ago

Also pretty sure Magenta is a boy

3points

Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 12 months ago

My memory is blurry, but that sounds right. Magenta made me feel seen as a kid because I wore glasses and so did Magenta!

0points

Quinn 12 months ago (edited)

I watched a lot of Blue's Clues during my daughter's early childhood. I never wondered about the sex (gender, whatever) of the titular dog. (I did sometimes wonder how Steve, the human host of the show, supported himself financially. Then I found out that Steve in real life was an aspiring musician.) So, it's not shocking or even surprising for me to find out that the dog was a girl. However, I *did* find it shocking - and amusing - when I found out that Spuds MacKenzie, the mascot dog for Bud Light beer in the late '80s, was in fact a girl.

3points

howdylee 12 months ago

The Taco Bell chihuahua mascot was also a female dog.

1point

JessieJ&LilyLovebug 12 months ago (edited)

I never watched this show, and I just assumed she was a girl. Probably because I have always had girl (female) dogs.

2points

BasedWang12.5 12 months ago

But.... But they say it in the show

1point

Janner Wingfeather 12 months ago

I knew that, but I was surprised to learn Tweety Bird is a boy.

1point

Momo Skarsgård 12 months ago

Yup, that she is.

1point

Solidhog 12 months ago

I watched two episodes of the kids program Bluey before I found she was a girl. Is it something about dogs with Blue in the name?

1point

3 Trash Pandas in a Trenchcoat 12 months ago

So is Pusheen!

1point

JustAnotherPanda (she/they/he) 12 months ago

And bluey is dating a girl I think :)

1point

Notme 12 months ago

Bluey’s supposed to be six!

3points

Kirby 12 months ago

Makes sense, because, in fact my older sister's name is Blue.

1point

Ur_Fav_Lazy_Panda🫶 7 months ago

Yeah one day I realized and my brain quit for a second (Ik bc ex. “Blues really excited! She will…”

0points

rex fermier 11 months ago

What was your first clue?

0points

Janet Graham 11 months ago

I watched that often with my boys. They always refer to her as a girl. Not news.

0points

J 12 months ago

Steve always called Blue her! then after 9/11, he went SF and deployed for 20+ years.

0points

Sara Wilson 12 months ago

So was Spuds McKenzie. Most "actor" dogs r. Benji was too

0points

E.V. 12 months ago

I thought Blue, Bluey and Bingo were all boys until my 4 yo educated me. Lol

0points

Maya Iris 12 months ago (edited)

My language has no gender pronounce, it's definitely shocking to learn about Blue's gender, and took me until adulthood to found out

0points

Lavendar rose 1 year ago

What!? TIL

0points

Ima Manimal 12 months ago

the stuffed animal didn’t have a d**k…..

-1point

Telmo Belo 1 year ago

Thanks to my "everything is gendered" language,, it's in the name.

-1point

Whyalready 12 months ago (edited)

I’m sure you’re talking about that other blue dog, who can walk upright, talk (in a funny accent), is on that one show that your kids always put on, is enjoyed by internet deviants who enjoy making not too nice pictures of this character and are totally not closeted pedophiles, and is that one character that YouTube kids exploit in their totally kid friendly videos.

-2points

Also Ansinfer 1 year ago

I know! That's exactly how I felt when I realized Ms. Piggy the pig lusted for Kermit the Frog! Yikes!

-3points

bakuhoe_simpp 1 year ago

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#21

Money only has value because we believe it has value. The reason a $10 bill can buy you $10 worth of items or service is because we all agree on what the value of the bill is.

lillybells13 Report

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156points

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SCamp 1 year ago

Most of society’s rules, laws, practices are based on belief or agreement. We only stop at a red light because we’ve agreed to, a red traffic light doesn’t intrinsically mean stop. The balance in your bank isn’t money, it’s figures on a screen that we agree has value. Diamonds are just rocks, gold is just a metal - we agree that they have value. If we all agree that beach shells have value, then they do.

96points

Yankeewithoutacause Report

#22

Alcohol is really poison..

Final score:

144points

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Shark Lady 1 year ago

If alcohol was discovered today then it would be banned.

84points

#23

We're all just a bunch of atoms thinking about themselves

grocija Report

Final score:

143points

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Craig S. (EvilSausage) 1 year ago

How high were you when you thought of that?

83points

#24

50 Facts About The World People Accidentally Realized And Had To Share Them Online That people that are blind from birth don't see "black" or "nothing," they see with their eyes what you see with your elbow.

HeavyRightFoot19 , Yan Krukau Report

Final score:

142points

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CrazyCatChild (She/They) 1 year ago

What?

82points

#25

If you just do something, it becomes so much easier to do. Just get it over with, whatever it is.

Fuzzysox25 Report

Final score:

131points

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Little Wonder 1 year ago

Counterpoint: I don't wanna.

156points

#26

How bizarre acting is, I got really high once and I was watching a movie and it dawned on me how strange the whole thing is , you get random people pretending to be other people for my entertainment.... weird

adterraincognita Report

Final score:

124points

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Marzipanda 1 year ago

Indeed. "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts." Shakespeare wrote that just for you!

11points

#27

50 Facts About The World People Accidentally Realized And Had To Share Them Online We went from kitty hawk to the moon inside of 66 years.

alczervikslumberyard , Pixabay Report

Final score:

123points

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Frank Ropen 1 year ago

And know we are back to flat earthers

112points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

See Also on Bored Panda

Thrill-Seeking Diver Jumps Down Extreme Waterslide, Ignoring The Strict Ban For Women

#28

Some day there will be zero evidence our Earth ever existed. The sun will eventually consume the Earth.

pi20 Report

Final score:

120points

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Marzipanda 1 year ago

Thank goodness. Finally a solution to all those pop-up ads and spam emails.

188points

#29

If you earn 50.000 € a year, starting directly after school and are working for 40 years until you retire, that's only 2.000.000 €.

This 2 million includes your whole life. Every holiday you ever make. Every gift you ever gave. Every car you ever bought. Your wedding, your house, your kids Christmas presents. Everything.

And yet, there are people out there who buy cars worth 2 million or even more. Ever heard someone making 10 millions? That's 5 times your life. A billion? That's the lives of a whole town.

Even if your double the income. There are people out there who could buy your live a thousand times

rotzverpopelt Report

Final score:

119points

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JessieJ&LilyLovebug 12 months ago

And now you'd understand why people resorted to storming castles with pitchforks and beheading the nobility with guillotines.

13points

#30

50 Facts About The World People Accidentally Realized And Had To Share Them Online That every time you shuffle a deck of cards it’s extremely likely that no deck of cards in history has ever been in the same order you just shuffled your deck to.

roughly7chickens , Marin Tulard Report

Final score:

117points

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Sergio Bicerra 1 year ago

The number of combinations is so big it's almost unimaginable. More conbinations than atoms in the observable universe.

32points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

See Also on Bored Panda

“Ma’am I Live Here”: Woman Refuses To Back Out Of Driveway, Learns A Lesson The Hard Way

#31

50 Facts About The World People Accidentally Realized And Had To Share Them Online They were colonizing the Wild West the same time as they were building skyscrapers in Manhattan. I always think of them taking place eighty to a hundred years apart. It's wild.

Emilayday , Matias Di Meglio Report

Final score:

116points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago

The Wild West describes a period lasting from the end of the American Civil War until the early 20th century. WHen the Wright Brothers were testing their airplane at Kitty Hawk, there were gunfights, cowboys and indians, and all the usual wild west stuff.

32points

#32

50 Facts About The World People Accidentally Realized And Had To Share Them Online Percentages can be reversed.

30% of 70 is 70% of 30.

sfkf8486 , Nataliya Vaitkevich Report

Final score:

114points

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KathyT 1 year ago

I was born in 1956 and my husband was born in 1949. The year I turned 49 my husband turned 56.

98points

#33

The light from the stars we see were emitted thousands of thousands of years ago and could potentially be from stars that are no longer there

drbrian83 Report

Final score:

111points

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Twizzle Sticks 1 year ago

Not “potentially,” in reality.

45points

#34

You can't get peoples respect just by being nice. I was nice my whole life and no one treated me seriously. I've noticed drastic change in how people treat me once I started to care less about other peoples opinion and was more confident sharing my worldview.

LubieRZca Report

Final score:

102points

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k1ddkanuck 1 year ago (edited)

One can be nice yet authoritative and effective at communicating at the same time though. You can be nice, but still speak with confidence, be stern when needed, and not take sh!t when someone is blatantly looking for confrontation. Being a nice person doesn't have to mean being a pushover.

57points

50 Of The Most Incredible Shots That Were Submitted To The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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French Diver’s “Jewels” In Tight Swimming Trunks Become Talk Of The Town At Olympics

#35

Matter and energy can be changed, but it is never destroyed. It is just changed. The second law of thermodynamics states that, within any system, nothing ever remains the same. Change is constant.

dudeab1des Report

Final score:

101points

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Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago

Everything leads to Chaos. Really.

31points

#36

That there are far more psychopaths than most of us think.

yabadbado Report

Final score:

96points

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Puppy Dancing! 1 year ago (edited)

And most are in jail because less than 1% of people are really smart(geniuses), and we have less than 1% psychopaths, so 1 in 10,000 are smart psychopaths, the rest just have issues with making it seem like they are normal enough to have relationships and not being casually violent. Smart psychopaths want to make tons of money, so they go into business so they are usually in wall street.

25points

Angrypenguinwaddle96 Report

#37

I know it’s odd but A looks like tip of a pencil.

Final score:

88points

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Marzipanda 1 year ago

You got A point there.

60points

#38

50 Facts About The World People Accidentally Realized And Had To Share Them Online When you lose weight, most of it ends up as carbon dioxide which is exhaled from your lungs.

Wannagetsober , Ketut Subiyanto Report

Final score:

82points

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Sue Denham 1 year ago

Also, in my case, it's not really lost at all; it's just hiding in the cupboard or fridge waiting for me to find it again.

194points

#39

Oxford university is older than the Aztecs

Pineapple_JoJo Report

Final score:

79points

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James' Journeys 12 months ago

Visit a reservation and spend time speaking with an elder and they'll tell you, western indigenous peoples live with nature in harmony. That's why there wasn't any big push to invent new things to conquer it. The eastern hemisphere cultures were always pushing to conquer nature and thus the advancements in technology.

14points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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Mom Leaves $250k Inheritance To Son, Throws A Fit When Daughter Stops Looking After Her

#40

The other day I was in a thread with a bunch of men that had their minds blown after they realized our hair is twisted up in the towels on our heads after a shower.

THAT blew my mind.

Aromatic_Cut8035 Report

Final score:

78points

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Buttrnutsquash 12 months ago

My husband the other day asked me if my mom taught me how to do that, or was it just instinct. I had to think long and hard about that one...

8points

#41

50 Facts About The World People Accidentally Realized And Had To Share Them Online The Roman Empire fully fell less than 50 years before the discovery of the new world

South-by-north , Hisham Zayadneh Report

Final score:

76points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago

First, damn, that's the first time I've thought of the Roman Empire all week. Second, this is debatable. This is referring to the Byzantine Empire. AKA the Eastern Roman Empire. They may have considered themselves Roman in the fifth century when the Western Empire fell, but a thousand years later they were NOT Roman anymore. Their capital was Constantinople. Most of them were Christian. They spoke Greek not Latin. IMO they were not Roman. Not in the 15th century. They were their own special, fascinating civilization.

56points

#42

How many compound words are just hiding in plain sight in English.

You’ve got plenty of obvious ones like Breakfast. But some sneaky ones like Holiday and Disease.

Lemesplain Report

Final score:

72points

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Javelina Poppers 1 year ago

Does blowjob make the list?

48points

#43

When I learned about the 20/80 rule, my life was turned upside down.

It says that 20 percent effort produces 80 percent results, but 80 percent effort produces only 20 percent results.

I couldn't believe it at first, but when I set a goal of sticking to the rule for a week (to test it), I realized that my productivity was much higher because my time is now limited. I stopped wasting time and try to get things done as quickly as possible so I don't have to stretch it out all day.

As a result, I have more free time for myself and my family, as well as hobbies and additional education.

AnastasiaFrid Report

Final score:

71points

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Frank Ropen 1 year ago

Or to paraphrase it, the last 20% need 80% of the overall effort

24points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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“This Breaks My Heart”: People Stunned—And Angry—After Woman Buys Lost Luggage From Airport

#44

50 Facts About The World People Accidentally Realized And Had To Share Them Online Be there or be square…. Because you’re not around.

tachyfootsteps , Yaroslav Shuraev Report

Final score:

70points

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Joe Publique 1 year ago (edited)

Common misconception. Actually, to ‘be square’ as a pejorative originated with the Jazz community in the 40s and meant ‘to be out of date or out of touch’. So, ‘be there or be square’ means ‘be there or be out of date and/or out of touch’.

69points

#45

Breakfast is simply breaking your morning fast

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68points

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Kyra Heiker 1 year ago

In German, it's Frühstück, which literally means "early piece".

32points

#46

That how small we are compared to the universe and how our problems dont matter just like us. We are a multicellular specie living in the universe's TINY super cluster's TINY galaxy's TINY solar system's TINY star's TINY PLANET'S TINY nation. And you're still brainf***ed over your job? Relax! Nothing really matters, eventually everything will die out. So, do whatever you want, live your best life and make sure you had a fun time. Go ahead, have a fun time because we all will have to leave any second now. Good Luck.

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64points

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OhnoI’vebeencensored 1 year ago

What if doing whatever I want and having a fun time is (for example) shooting speedballs and careening through city centre traffic at 80 mph? Is that ok?

16points

#47

It always blows my mind that the match was invented after the lighter

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64points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago

SELF STRIKING match. Match originates from "matchstick", as in The Matchstick Girl, to describe any sort of small stick used to start a fire.

19points

"I Didn't Start The Dryer": Karen Gets Taught A Lesson After Throwing Out Neighbor's Wet Clothes

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College Student Does Exactly As Told After Roommates Demand They Keep Their Stuff In Their Room

#48

Well, it may sound stupid af, but when I was 11 I realised that moon REFLECT sun's light, it doesn't glow on it's own, and that night staring at it was a whole new experience xD

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63points

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Jen Samara 1 year ago

I KNOW! It's like, just space, magically floating object in space, something out there shining light onto this floating object thats just there, wow, the whole universe comes together.

17points

#49

50 Facts About The World People Accidentally Realized And Had To Share Them Online The speed of light is consistent in relativity no matter how fast you are traveling because of the effects speed has on time and gravity. If you are traveling at 99% the speed of light, then the light you emit from a flashlight would appear to be traveling away from you at the speed of light because your time is slowed.

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59points

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Kyra Heiker 1 year ago

🤯

19points