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More exciting facts about our world await you in the list below, courtesy of the “Factz.unheard” Instagram account. Scroll down to learn about the things you probably haven’t heard about ...
In the Middle Ages, people thought farting in jars and sniffing them would help prevent death. True or false? Weirdly enough, it actually checks out as true. In fact, during the Great Plague of ...
We all get bored at some point. One survey found that the average American adult experiences 131 days of boredom per year. And most of it happens at work. Another study revealed that employees are ...
The world's largest national park consists of over a quarter of Greenland's total land area, is larger than 166 sovereign states, and has no permanent human population. Northwest Angle This little spoke jutting out of northern Minnesota was created as the result of a surveying error, and its land is completely cut off from the rest of the U.S ...
Image credits: astarisaslave #8. TIL in South Korea, only blind people can get a masseur's license. This law was established in 1912, to help visually impaired people earn a living.
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous is a 2020 book by Harvard professor Joseph Henrich that aims to explain history and psychological variation using approaches from cultural evolution and evolutionary psychology. In the book, Henrich explores how institutions and psychology ...
"Conspiracy theories have no doubt existed across the world, and throughout human history - as a social creature, we have in-groups and out-groups that always have imbalances of power, as well as ...
The Indian far-right posits that Muslims are converting the world by... being more attractive to women than them. Jesús Malverde: A popular saint among drug dealers in Mexico. Matshishkapeu: The "fart man" of Innu mythology. Don't cross him or he'll make you constipated. Missionary Church of Kopimism: To Ctrl+C is human; to Ctrl+V is divine ...