One of the best parts about the internet is how great a learning tool it can be. Even if you’re just casually browsing some random forum or website, you can stumble across a weird fact you’ve never heard before. The next thing you know, you’re knee-deep in research and it's been hours since you last had a snack.
The members of the r/AskReddit online community had a lot of fun sharing the most mind-blowing facts that they recently realized. It sometimes takes a tiny thing to change your perspective completely. Whether that’s seeing a duck in a tree, thinking about space travel, or finally comprehending how late the Roman Empire actually fell. Scroll down for some fresh facts that you (probably!) don’t know.
Bored Panda wanted to learn more about source reliability and how to reverse our shortening attention spans, so we reached out to Susan A. Nolan, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Seton Hall University. You'll find her insights as you read on.
#21
Money only has value because we believe it has value. The reason a $10 bill can buy you $10 worth of items or service is because we all agree on what the value of the bill is.
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156points
#24
That people that are blind from birth don't see "black" or "nothing," they see with their eyes what you see with your elbow.
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142points
#25
If you just do something, it becomes so much easier to do. Just get it over with, whatever it is.
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131points
#26
How bizarre acting is, I got really high once and I was watching a movie and it dawned on me how strange the whole thing is , you get random people pretending to be other people for my entertainment.... weird
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124points
#27
We went from kitty hawk to the moon inside of 66 years.
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123points
#28
Some day there will be zero evidence our Earth ever existed. The sun will eventually consume the Earth.
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120points
#29
If you earn 50.000 € a year, starting directly after school and are working for 40 years until you retire, that's only 2.000.000 €.
This 2 million includes your whole life. Every holiday you ever make. Every gift you ever gave. Every car you ever bought. Your wedding, your house, your kids Christmas presents. Everything.
And yet, there are people out there who buy cars worth 2 million or even more. Ever heard someone making 10 millions? That's 5 times your life. A billion? That's the lives of a whole town.
Even if your double the income. There are people out there who could buy your live a thousand times
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119points
#30
That every time you shuffle a deck of cards it’s extremely likely that no deck of cards in history has ever been in the same order you just shuffled your deck to.
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117points
#31
They were colonizing the Wild West the same time as they were building skyscrapers in Manhattan. I always think of them taking place eighty to a hundred years apart. It's wild.
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116points
#32
Percentages can be reversed.
30% of 70 is 70% of 30.
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114points
#33
The light from the stars we see were emitted thousands of thousands of years ago and could potentially be from stars that are no longer there
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111points
#34
You can't get peoples respect just by being nice. I was nice my whole life and no one treated me seriously. I've noticed drastic change in how people treat me once I started to care less about other peoples opinion and was more confident sharing my worldview.
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102points
#35
Matter and energy can be changed, but it is never destroyed. It is just changed. The second law of thermodynamics states that, within any system, nothing ever remains the same. Change is constant.
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101points
#38
When you lose weight, most of it ends up as carbon dioxide which is exhaled from your lungs.
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82points
#40
The other day I was in a thread with a bunch of men that had their minds blown after they realized our hair is twisted up in the towels on our heads after a shower.
THAT blew my mind.
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78points
