It’s impossible to know all the facts, right? Well, there are facts that probably many of us know because we found them out in some trivia night game or maybe somebody once told them to us, and they just stuck with us because they are surprising. For example, elephants are unable to jump, tigers have also striped skin, or the Spanish national anthem has no words. Probably many of you will agree that you have seen, heard or read these facts somewhere.However, there are also facts that are not so well-known or often heard and they may not even surprise us, but rather open up a slightly different point of view of the whole world. One Reddit user recently created a thread asking people online to share little-known facts that blow their mind every time they think about them. So scroll down and share your thoughts below!More info:RedditThis post may includeaffiliate links.
It’s impossible to know all the facts, right? Well, there are facts that probably many of us know because we found them out in some trivia night game or maybe somebody once told them to us, and they just stuck with us because they are surprising. For example, elephants are unable to jump, tigers have also striped skin, or the Spanish national anthem has no words. Probably many of you will agree that you have seen, heard or read these facts somewhere.
However, there are also facts that are not so well-known or often heard and they may not even surprise us, but rather open up a slightly different point of view of the whole world. One Reddit user recently created a thread asking people online to share little-known facts that blow their mind every time they think about them. So scroll down and share your thoughts below!
More info:Reddit
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Once you know the difference between sympathy and empathy, you will notice that tons of people lack empathy.Let me illustrate with an example:If I told a group of people I was sad because my dog died, a decent amount of people would feel sorry for me. If I told that same group of people I was depressed because my goldfish died, less people would feel sorry for me. “It’s a f*****g goldfish, so what?“This is the fundamental difference between sympathy and empathy. If you feel sorry for me when my dog dies, but not when my goldfish dies you are not being empathic when my dog dies, just sympathic. It’s likely you feel sorry for me because you imagine how you would feel if your dog died and projecting those feelings on me.True empathy means acknowledging and valueing emotions, even when you do not understand them. People with empathy don’t compare my emotions to how theirs would be in my situation. They can acknowledge my feelings, without sharing them.
“The inspiration for starting the thread came from my innate curiosity about the world and a desire to create a platform for sharing astonishing, lesser-known facts,” the author of this thread,u/foratbahrani, shared withBored Panda. “It’s always exciting to see how such knowledge can shift our perspective and understanding of the world around us.”
Grizzly bears in Yellowstone eat around 300,000 moths a month and it accounts for 1/3 of their calorie intake.
Cheetahs aren’t big cats. They are very large small cats.
The difference between a million and a billion. A million seconds is about 11 days, a billion seconds is about 31.5 YEARS. Now think about the billionaires.
“My favorite one was how Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of the iPhone than to the building of the pyramids.”
its not the climate change alone thats dangerous to humanity, climate has changed multiple times in history, even worse than its now. The issue is the pace at which it happens. if it happens within a few hundret or thousand years, ecosystems can adapt. rn we are climate changing the world at top speed and cause changes that’d usually happen over millenia.
Babies can die from lack of love (human touch, cuddles, hugs, nuzzles).
Finally, OP emphasized that his own favorite mind-blowing fact is that we often think of the universe as an expanse filled with billions of galaxies, stars, and planets, but in reality, that’s only what we have discovered so far.“It’s humbling to consider that, much like our ancestors who believed the entirety of existence comprised merely the Earth, Sun, and Moon, we are similarly just scratching the surface. Despite our advanced technology and knowledge, we know only a tiny bit more about the universe’s true nature,” OP added.
Finally, OP emphasized that his own favorite mind-blowing fact is that we often think of the universe as an expanse filled with billions of galaxies, stars, and planets, but in reality, that’s only what we have discovered so far.
“It’s humbling to consider that, much like our ancestors who believed the entirety of existence comprised merely the Earth, Sun, and Moon, we are similarly just scratching the surface. Despite our advanced technology and knowledge, we know only a tiny bit more about the universe’s true nature,” OP added.
If you stand in any planet or moon of the solar system and you look up, you’ll see the same night sky as we see it from the Earth. Same constellations and all, that’s how unfathomably far away the stars are compared to the planets.However, there’s one exception. If you stand in Pluto and look up, you’ll see that Proxima Centauri looks slightly “off” compared to its position from the terrestrial sky. That’s how unfathomably far Pluto is as well.
Not little known, but perhaps, less thought about or internalized.Large amounts of children were born from most families in the past due to a horrible rate of infant/child mortality. Nearly everyone had outlived one or more of their children.That’s horrifying.What we consider the most base of basic medical science, that we teach our young children, has saved countless lives and families.Wash your hands, please.
Just how capable ancient humans were. At least 50000 years ago humans crossed about 60 miles of open ocean and colonized Australia. The timeline for colonizing America has been consistently pushed back. For tens of thousands of years modern humans coexisted with other ancient hominids, essentially but not quite the same as us but close enough to breed and produce viable, nonsterile offspring. I find it absolutely mind blowing to think about
It took Humans less than 66 yrs from first discovering the flight (1903) to landing a man on the moon (1969)
most people value short-term “good feelings” more than “long term stability”. if you understand this, much in the world will be better understandable to you.
The energy stored in all the oil and gas in the Earth is the equivalent of just eight and a half days worth of sunlight hitting the surface of the planet.
Over 99 percent of all Species to ever exist on Earth are extinct.
There are more people living in slavery now than at any time in human history.
You always have more knowledge than you can put into words (Michael Polanyi). You can never fully articulate, for example, all of the knowledge that you rely on in order to ride a bicycle. There is always some remaining knowledge that you’re leaving unspoken. Polanyi’s book Personal Knowledge blew my mind.Edit: The Tacit Dimension is a more compact book covering some of the same ideas.
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Benford’s Law. How large datasets of numbers behave in very predictable ways. It’s one of the easiest ways to detect if a company is cooking its books.
At one point the human population was between 1,000 and 10,000 we came so close to going extinct.
The use of fingerprinting can be traced back to China in the 700’s for identification. It wasn’t used for forensics until the 1800’s.
Colors are subjective and cultural.There is a tribe in Polynesia that has the same color for blue and green (lets call it grue). They see the difference as shades of the same color, for example “sea grue” and “tree grue”.In Dannish there is no word for pink or orange, they call it “light violet” or “redish brown” for example.
One little nugget of info I love is that there are parts of Scotland so ancient that they predate the m***********g dinosaurs. Oh, and that we’re still rising out of the ocean after the last Ice Age (so up yours, climate change!)
There are only about 25 blimps in the world
Vacuum decay… essentially, at any given moment without warning, the universe can cease to exist and never exist again.
Hershey Chocolate and Hershey ice cream. Are two completely separate and unrelated companies.
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