What’s on the agenda today, pandas? Perhaps you’re working, doing some laundry, going for a run and calling your parents to check in on them. And while you’re being so productive, you might as well squeeze in some time for learning too!Below, we’ve gathered a list of fun facts that have recently been shared on theToday I Learnedsubreddit. 5 minutes from now, you’ll have plenty more information to share with friends and family members, and you’ll know even more about the world. Keep reading to also find a conversation with Jake Olefsky, CEO ofBraingle.com, and be sure to upvote the facts you’re glad to have learned today!This post may includeaffiliate links.
What’s on the agenda today, pandas? Perhaps you’re working, doing some laundry, going for a run and calling your parents to check in on them. And while you’re being so productive, you might as well squeeze in some time for learning too!
Below, we’ve gathered a list of fun facts that have recently been shared on theToday I Learnedsubreddit. 5 minutes from now, you’ll have plenty more information to share with friends and family members, and you’ll know even more about the world. Keep reading to also find a conversation with Jake Olefsky, CEO ofBraingle.com, and be sure to upvote the facts you’re glad to have learned today!
This post may includeaffiliate links.
That Wimbledon umpires learn a vast array of swear words in many different languages in order to flag, and subsequently fine, any athlete to break the no swearing rule.
Of Alice Kober, who helped decipher an ancient script known as Linear B. Over 20 years, she meticulously recorded her research in a collection of 180,000 index cards. The script was deciphered in 1952, shortly after her death. It remains the only Bronze Age Aegean script that is readable now.
Irish Supreme Court doesn’t classify Subway bread as bread, but instead as cake because of its sugar content.
To learn more about the wonderful world of fun facts, we reached out to the CEO ofBraingle.com, Jake Olefsky, who was kind enough to have a chat withBored Panda. “Sharing fun facts is amazing because you can surprise someone and teach them something new at the same time,” he shared. “They are good conversation starters!“We were also curious about Jake’s favorite fun facts. “My favorite is the one that I have most recently learned, so it changes constantly,” he revealed. “Today, I learned that a stadium-sized comet is going to whizz past the earth this week! Hopefully it won’t hit us.”
To learn more about the wonderful world of fun facts, we reached out to the CEO ofBraingle.com, Jake Olefsky, who was kind enough to have a chat withBored Panda. “Sharing fun facts is amazing because you can surprise someone and teach them something new at the same time,” he shared. “They are good conversation starters!”
We were also curious about Jake’s favorite fun facts. “My favorite is the one that I have most recently learned, so it changes constantly,” he revealed. “Today, I learned that a stadium-sized comet is going to whizz past the earth this week! Hopefully it won’t hit us.”
About Deborah Sampson. She disguised herself as a man so she could join the Continental Army and fight in the Revolutionary war. She was shot twice but fearing someone would find out her secret she removed one of the balls with a penknife and carried the other bullet in her leg her whole life.
William Wrigley initially offered free baking powder as a gift for his soap but the powder turned out to be more popular. He switched to selling the powder and added sticks of gum as a gift. The gum became incredibly popular thus forcing him to switch and became the world’s leading gum company.
“Of course, we have a review process where editors fact-check each question and proofread it for errors,” Jake added. “If you are an expert in some subject, please come and make a quiz on it to share with the world.”
A 2013 survey, involving 1,081 doctors regarding advance end-of-life directives, found that 88.3% said they would choose do-not-resuscitate or “no code” orders for themselves.
That the “dumb” in dumbbells originally meant “mute”. A “dumb” bell was a contraption used to train church bell ringers in the fine art of bell ringing without annoying the entire neighborhood. Later, because of the similarities in shape, the name was applied to certain exercise equipment.
About 100,000 people died each year in India due to the collapse of vulture populations. Vultures were crucial to the ecosystem & their near extinction due to accidental poisoning extended the presence of animal carcasses in the local environment, increasing rabies & reducing water quality.
Jake also says it’s important to be a lifelong learner “because it keeps your brain in shape, so you can stay sharp as you age.““It also makes you a more interesting person to be around, so you’ll make more friends. Just remain curious and try to learn something new every day,” he added. “Come toBraingle.comto take a trivia quiz on a wide range of topics, or create your own quiz on anything that you are interested in.”
Jake also says it’s important to be a lifelong learner “because it keeps your brain in shape, so you can stay sharp as you age.”
“It also makes you a more interesting person to be around, so you’ll make more friends. Just remain curious and try to learn something new every day,” he added. “Come toBraingle.comto take a trivia quiz on a wide range of topics, or create your own quiz on anything that you are interested in.”
There is a excerpt from John Adam’s diary where he describes the time he had to share a tiny bed with Benjamin Franklin and, instead of sleeping, they had an argument about whether to keep the windows open or closed. Franklin eventually won the argument when Adams got too tired and fell asleep.
That 55% of YA readers are actually adults.
Many people hear voices and music in white noise. This is known as auditory pareidolia or “musical ear syndrome.”
The USA federal witness protection program has a 100% success rate for those who follow their guidelines.
The first and last fatalities of building the Hoover Dam were a father and his son. They died on the same day, 14 years apart.
That due to very poor consumer reviews and negative media attention in 2014, Haribo discontinued sugar free gummy bears. The gummy bears contained maltitol, a sugar alcohol that is not fully digestible and that ferments in the gut. It can cause increased flatulence, loose stools, and diarrhea.
North American porcupines love salt and are known to eat backpackers’ road salt-covered boots left outside tents.
Over 98% of Korean households have a special kimchi fridge
Grasshopper are nearly 200 million years older than grass.
That famed scientist George Washington Carver had a respiratory infection in his youth which him with an unusually high pitched voice that “startled all who met him.”
That camouflage clothing is illegal for civilians in several countries.
Until 2001 workers at Disneyland had to wear “communal underwear” while in character because normal undies would bunch up and become visible. After several outbreaks of pubic lice, the performers got the Teamsters Union involved and Disney finally agreed to employees wearing their own underpants.
From the 1950s to 1970s, attempts were made at running bus services between London and India. The trip took about 50 days, cost about $100, and buses are said to have included private bunks and even a kitchen.
The Old London Bridge was crowded with houses and shops, some of them reaching up to 6 storeys in height.
Americans have a distinctive lean and it’s one of the first things the CIA trains operatives to fix.
That there are over two dozen universities in the U.S. that have their own nuclear reactors.
That the world’s largest kidney stone, removed from a patient in Sri Lanka, weighed 1.67 lbs (757.5g) and broke 2 world records.
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That Titan’s surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth. Saturn’s moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to Cassini data.
There’s a rare disorder called Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis, turning people’s skin into tree-like bark with wart growths due to HPV. Also known as “Tree Man Illness,” the disorder is inherited when an individual inherits one copy, from each parent, of a defective gene.
Alexander Hamilton was the first major American politician publicly involved in a sex scandal. He had an affair with 23-year-old Maria Reynolds, whose husband was aware of the infidelity and likely orchestrated the whole thing to regularly extort blackmail money from Hamilton.
That when Charles Guiteau bought the gun he would use to assassinate President Garfield, he chose one with a more expensive ivory handle, thinking it would look better in a museum. Though the gun was given to the Smithsonian, it has since been lost.
Sigmund Freud dissected hundreds of eels in search of the male sex organs. He had to concede failure in his first major published research paper, and turned to other issues in frustration.
That Tex-Mex has surpassed Italian as the most popular food genre in the United States.
The psychiatrist Henry Cotton would sometimes extract all of a patient’s teeth as he believed infected teeth to be the cause of psychiatric disorders. If that didn’t work, he’d remove testicles, ovaries, gall bladders, stomachs, spleens, cervixes and colons.
That pro bowling balls have specially shaped “weight blocks” inside them to change how the ball curves.
That among all civilian jobs in in the US, workers spend on average more than 60% of their workday standing.
That “The Iodine State” was South Carolina’s nickname in the 1930s and even on license plates, in an effort to promote the state’s vegetables as having more healthy iodine than other other state’s vegetables.
Former NBA Star Dwight Howard Ate 5,500 Calories in Candy Every Day for a Decade. Howard was consuming the amount of sugar equivalent to 24 chocolate bars every day.
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