75 Brutally Honest Facts That Will Shock You and Make You Think Twice
And for some reason, we really, really like the weird and strange ones.
There’s actual research behind why this happens.
Studies show that curiosity comes from a gap in what we know. When we come across something that doesn’t quite make sense, our brain wants to fill in the missing piece. It’s strongest when we understand just enough to realize there’s more to learn, but not enough to fully explain it.
Strange facts give us just a slice of information which is enough to catch our attention, but not enough to feel complete. So we naturally want to know more.
We don’t use “10% of our brains”, we use all 100%. There is no super secret unlocked powers up there.
Pandas are f*****g idiots and would be extinct without constant human intervention. They forget to eat, forget to mate, roll over and squish their young, and are mostly oblivious to the idea that they are carnivores.
Edit: Carnivores by taxonomy, not by diet. They’re supposedly omnivores with a preference for s****y, barely-sustaining leaves.
Edit 2: Wild pandas do not exhibit the traits I described. Unfortunately, there aren’t many wild pandas.
Zombies can’t exist. they have too many natural predators (i.e. birds, maggots, insects). Any form of weather is bad weather for them without a regulatory system to maintain temperature (hot days their flesh goes rancid and falls off until they are bone, cold days they literally freeze). At most a zombie outbreak would last a few days.
We actually spend a huge chunk of our lives doing exactly this.
We’re constantly feeding that need to know more, whether it’s through watching news or videos, reading articles, or going down internet rabbit holes.
Curiosity is also linked to how we make decisions, because this is what pushes both humans and animals to find different ways to figure things out.
Being invisible wouldn’t be awesome because you would be blind the second you went invisible. If your eyes are invisible the light has nothing to bounce back to rendering you unable to see.
The majority of all pregnancies end in natural abortion during the first few weeks. Most women never know.
If all known souls are outside of a structure, Firefighters will not actually go into a burning building to save your cat.
The sticker you have on your door telling me about your animals? That one in the tiny writing right above the door k**b? I’m either A) too busy breaking the door down to read it, or B) not going close to the building because it’s fully involved.
exception: If I see your dog/cat/pet rock while looking for your (probably) corpse, I’ll grab it on my way out.
Exception 2: You’ve got a kid with big doe eyes asking me to save your goldfish. I totally did that once, and I have to say…it was *THE* best save of my career.
Learning a random fact today might spark a late-night rabbit hole search tomorrow. It might also introduce you to entirely new hobbies, history, or scientific concepts.
It can also train you to become a fact-checker who doesn’t just accept things at face value.
I was a slot technician in a casino for years. I’d have customers go into a bonus where they had to choose a box or item for their bonus. They’d often ask me which one to choose. I always replied “Do you want me to ruin it for you?”. Truth is, no matter what you pick, it is already determined what the outcome will be. If the machine is going to show you that you win $7, it doesn’t matter what box you pick on the screen. Technically, they are ALL $7.
Edit: I see there are some casino bosses here that are trying to discredit me. I have been a contractor that was hired by these same people to come and install/upgrade/train their people. I can build a casino from the ground up. I am not the average tech that clears bill jams. I was offered supervisor positions at casinos multiple times and even offered to work on the Vegas strip at an MGM owned resort. I am licensed to work in about 10 states. I did start at a casino as a regular tech, BUT I have 10 years IT/electronics experience before starting. I worked as an overnight tech where I was solely responsible for a gaming floor of 1800+ machines for 90% of my shift. I have experience with player tracking…Bally SDS, Konami NAMB and the Oasis System. I wanted to validate myself. I’ll try to answer any questions that anyone has…
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