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Weird World: 50 Amazing Facts From This Instagram Page To Satisfy Your Curiosity
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It’s a weird and wonderful world we live in, and there’s nobody out there who knows it better than the admins of Weird World. These linked Instagram and Facebook accounts share strange and interesting facts about science, history, and practically anything you can imagine!
We bet this page would go over well with anyone who enjoys juicy bits of trivia about everything and anything, but everyone is bound to find something that’ll satisfy their curiosity. What was the first ever fashion statement observed in chimpanzees? When in our lives do we start smiling and laughing less? Their page scratches all of these “I wonders” and more.
Read on for some behind-the-scenes info from our interview with the page’s creators and curators.
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The page is the brainchild of three friends who created it together in 2011. We reached out and they agreed to tell BoredPanda more about their page, which they created “as a way to share all the fascinating and weird information we come across.”
They emphasized that this had been an interest before they ever began sharing their posts with others, indicating that they regularly “sought out the most captivating and extraordinary facts, stories, and phenomena discovered on the internet.”
“We enjoy researching and sharing a wide range of topics,” the admins explained, “but our personal favorite types of posts revolve around natural phenomena and anomalies. These topics often captivate our interest and inspire us to delve deeper into understanding the unexplained.”
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Ryon Cupidore 1 year ago (edited)
Mr. Rogers is an automatic upvote. If only there was an episode where he had met Bob Ross, my childhood CRT TV might have exploded out of sheer awesome.
The admins also discussed the preferences they’ve noticed among their readers. It turns out that Weird World followers “particularly enjoy posts that delve into mysterious topics [, w]hether it's unsolved mysteries, paranormal phenomena, or strange occurrences[.]”
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Zedrapazia 1 year ago
Who the f**k ridicules some random person with a gift on the train? Food and flowers sound like a normal Valentine's day gift or something like that, who expects more is greedy
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Personally, I’d recommend hitting this post up anytime you’re about to head to your favorite quiz bowl. With all of these neat trivia facts, there’s a decent chance that one of these facts (or something like it) might land on your lap.
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Shelli Aderman 1 year ago
Not fake. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7N_eeUlmIoc
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Cuppa tea? 1 year ago
He's nephew kept saying and came dressed as Superman. When asked h said he's uncle is superman. He had reputation for making up stories, so mum was called to school and teacher told her to have word with your fella about lying he's uncle is superman. Henry Cavill told this story on Graham Norton .
Devon Archer 1 year ago
My wife met Henry at cinemacon a few years back and said he was delightful and very nice.
Chrissie Anit 1 year ago
IIRC this is a fake story, the nephew said something along those lines, but Henry Cavill didn't accompany him to school.
Wise Turtle 1 year ago
He popped in I think. Not drop him off but say something about it
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Sergio Bicerra 1 year ago
Imagine if he went to the school with glasses and a tag from the Daily Planet
alwaysMispelled 1 year ago
To be fair, I'm sure there's a million kids who say their uncle or dad or whoever is superman...
Talitha Jansen 1 year ago
Stop telling fake stories, it can ruin someone's career.
Load More Replies...If you’re not a trivia fan, would its health benefits change your mind? There are all sorts of neurological and emotional benefits to trivia. Let’s start with the fact that it can be good for your brain. Psychologist Deborah Stokes, Ph.D., L.P.C., B.C.N. told Healthline that “retaining information about things we’re interested in can be like exercise for the frontal cortex as the brain ages.”
Trivia is also a great social activity that gets you out of the house and meeting new people. The same Healthline article points out that trivia nights offer a rare (and usually, hopefully, quite strictly enforced) opportunity to put our phones down and spend some time with people face-to-face. Indeed, taking your phone out may get you penalized for cheating!
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Carrie de Luka 1 year ago
This will no doubt be unpopular but research has shown that 3-month-old babies prefer faces from certain racial groups, usually those that look like them, 9-month-olds use race to categorize face. https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2020/08/children-notice-race
However, the experts in Healthline’s article also warned about the potential pitfalls of an unhealthy approach to trivia. For some people, trivia can become an obsession where they can’t accept having any holes in their knowledge about a given subject.
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Cheese Lover™ 1 year ago
Better than sitting in the middle of the road with a tube of super glue and a sign
John Kounios, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Drexel University in Pennsylvania, told Healthline that “this can motivate a person to the point at which they collect information about that topic compulsively. This might be called the ‘collect them all’ phenomenon. People collect facts about a topic the way a stamp collector collects stamps. The more, and the rarer, the better.”
“Some people are compulsive about gathering information on a topic,” he added in their article. “It’s only a problem if they’re ignoring other things in their lives.”
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Take me to dinner first 1 year ago (edited)
the struggle is real! i'm no one without my glasses, but i hope one day i put them on and find i won a golden medal too
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Zedrapazia 1 year ago
Reminds me of the story of that mommy cat who did the same, burning herself to get all of her kittens out of a burning building. No matter if human or not, everyone's a superhero when it comes to saving their beloved ones
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Alisa LaVine 1 year ago
The world didn't deserve Robin Williams. But I'm glad we had him for as long as we did.
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Mimi La Souris 1 year ago
true humanity would be that this vaccine exists for good, and that it is free, or at least cheap
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Pedantic Panda 1 year ago
A good thing to do, but all of it went to slave owners, the people who were enslaved received nothing.
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David Wambold 1 year ago
"The shoe is on the hand it fits. There's really not much more to it."
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David Wambold 1 year ago
SAD. Seasonal Affective Disorder. Lack of light can cause depression.
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Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago
I've watched an interview with this guy and he describes using his EXPOSED ARM BONES to open the door. Good lord.
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censorshipsucks 1 year ago
pity he can't see how famous he is now, and how his biggest rival is acknowledged as a mere thief
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Take me to dinner first 1 year ago
The barber was awesome, cut his hair for free because "he's human just like us"
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Bender Bending Rodríguez 1 year ago
I am only at 14th and I have to say there are some real tear jerkers in this list.
penguin 1 year ago
Intense Stories! By the way, what do you do with the time saved by writing RIP instead of Rest in Peace (they gave their whole lives and you didn't even give 5 seconds of it)?
Lyyyy 1 year ago
Are we shaming people for using common abbreviations now?
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Bender Bending Rodríguez 1 year ago
I am only at 14th and I have to say there are some real tear jerkers in this list.
penguin 1 year ago
Intense Stories! By the way, what do you do with the time saved by writing RIP instead of Rest in Peace (they gave their whole lives and you didn't even give 5 seconds of it)?
Lyyyy 1 year ago
Are we shaming people for using common abbreviations now?
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