Something interesting, beautiful or funny can be found in literally any pebble, any animal or the simplest phenomenon around us. Don't believe it? Then this viral thread in the AskReddit community, from which Bored Panda made a selection of the most interesting facts, will probably be of interest to you.
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Of course, from a formal point of view, some of the facts presented in this selection are far from flawless. For example, as for the statement about the skeleton and the brain - it actually depends on whether you consider yourself and your personality to be solely a product of brain activity.
After all, we are not only a collection of knowledge, sensations and memories, but our entire body too. And our brain is an integral part of the organism. The most important - yes, but nothing more. After all, as one sci-fi author once wrote, "the psyche is just a random coating on the endocrine glands..."
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In arabic, when it comes to war, you'd have military ranks like Amir al-Bahr, which would roughly translate to "ruler of the sea". The term was taken by latin, shortened to "Amir al", and made its way to western languages, as *admiral*.
Which means that admiral essentially means "Lord of the-".
Why go far for examples? The story about rabbits not having paw pads interested me and my children so much that that same evening, we decided to check everything out. Fortunately, we have a rabbit named Harry at home (he has a white lightning pattern on his face, so there were no other name options).
The rabbit initially objected to the experiment, but the tasty carrot, as always, did the trick. And yes - you can see the result in the photo to the corresponding story. The kids enjoyed it, and so did I (the rabbit just enjoyed the treat). If you also have a rabbit at home (and an extra carrot), you can repeat it, it will be fun and educational.
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When we find a bug in software we apply a "patch"...
This comes from old cardex/punch card systems. If a punch card was punched in the wrong spot, you could fix it by applying a patch to the hole.
"It's a special talent to find real gems in the abundance of facts that surround us that would be interesting to a wide variety of people. By the way, I think that's why people like trivia games," says Mari Senopalnikova, the owner and host of The Quiz Spain trivia game show from Torrevieja, Spain, whom Bored Panda asked for a comment here.
"In fact, you can find interesting things about literally everything in the world, about every little thing. Even about things that at first glance seem incredibly boring. It all depends on the angle from which we look at it."
"For example, the story of how the concepts of 'uppercase' and 'lowercase' letters appeared really interested me, and we'll definitely write an interesting question about it."
"By the way, we also asked the question about how the term 'bug' appeared in IT a few months ago. However, who knows - maybe someday we'll ask the question again, only from a different angle. Or combine it with another exciting story..." Mari ponders.
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In any case, we do hope that you're already interested in this selection of facts, and will read the entire list to the very end with pleasure. And, if you want, you can also add your own interesting fact in the comments. Even if someone considers it useless - well, another person may not only like it, but also find it vitally important. Who knows? After all, our world, as we already wrote above, is so damn bizarre and amazing!
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The Stegosaurus went extinct 80 million years before the T-Rex even existed.
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