Ever see someone drop some complicated stats in a post that makes you wonder if the math actually checks out? Well. some seasoned nerds out there will literally do the math to prove a point, calculate the internal physics of a meme, or even just for the hell of it. Let us be real, most …
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20+ Entertaining Times Knowledge Was Dropped on Stupid People
According to our timelines, pretty much everyone is a medical expert or scientist these days. These «experts» throw around knowledge that is factually untrue and sometimes even downright dangerous. And it’s extremely satisfying when these wannabe Einsteins get schooled by actual professionals on social media. This gallery is full of that delicious dunking. We hope …
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15+ Mystifying Moments Of Excruciating Dumbness
Something that social media is notorious for is that it can expose our not-so-bright side from time to time. The ease with which we can broadcast our every thought and interact with almost anyone we please has led many people to say some ridiculously stupid things over the years. We can backtrack and delete all …
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25+ Obscure Facts & Snapshots From History
Did you know that Ernest Hemingway used to shoot sharks with a tommy gun while fishing for marlins? Neither did I until I found @weird_hist, a Twitter account that drops random little-known historical tidbits and fascinating images from the past. Each one of @weird_hist’s tweets is a gateway to a historical k-hole. First, you’ll naturally …
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20+ Fascinating Facts For Perpetual Knowledge Seekers
Everyday we’re bombarded with so much information, our poor brains our bound to get overwhelmed and only process the necessary data, so to speak. It’s a shame we can’t retain all the interesting stuff we discover throughout our lives, but thanks to the internet and subreddits like r/todayilearned, we can revisit fascinating facts and historical …
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Incredible Thread of Website Suggestions Is a Reminder of How Great the Internet Can Be
Before the world became addicted to ‘likes’ and compulsively checking incessant notifications, the internet was a vast ocean of interesting websites, strange net art projects, and data experiments. It still is, in fact! Maybe we’re just too glued to social media to notice. Thankfully, not everyone has forgotten what a special place the internet can …
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Thread Thoroughly Outlines the Fascinating History of the Appalachian Mountains
Today I learned that the Appalachian Mountains are 480 million years old! That’s about 100 million years before animals walked on land, which explains why if you were to go digging around the Appalachian trail, you would only find the fossils of weird ancient ocean creatures, like trilobites. @AlexPetrovnia gave a thorough and fascinating history …
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20+ Fascinating Facts For Knowledge Seekers
Everyday we’re bombarded with so much information, our poor brains our bound to get overwhelmed and only process the necessary data, so to speak. It’s a shame we can’t retain all the interesting stuff we discover throughout our lives, but thanks to the internet and subreddits like r/todayilearned, we can revisit fascinating facts and historical …
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Big-Brained Nerds Who Did the Math Just for Fun
Some people like to scroll through memes for a light chuckle or two. Others prefer to check the accuracy of a joke through complex mathematical equations. You’d think the latter would suck the funny out of a meme. On the contrary, doing in-depth mathematical analysis to convert sperm DNA into megabytes in response to a …
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Strange, Mundane And Charming Excerpts From The Treasure That Is Wikipedia
Wikipedia is an institution. It knows almost anything about everything, to the extent that if it doesn’t show up on the first page of most Google results it feels like it’s a problem. Every teacher who ever disapproved of it for being ‘unreliable’? They were bewildered by its gift for cutting homework time in half. …
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