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Image credits: syntactyx #6. TIL of Kurt Gerstein, a Nazi officer who tried to alert the world of the Holocaust while it was happening by sending detailed reports to Swedish, Swiss, Dutch and ...
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 ...
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An obscure New World tribe with some interesting practices. Navel lint: A study proves that most belly button fluff is blue and that women are less likely to have it. Nasal sebum: Yes, that stuff on the surface of your nose. Old person smell: Apparently developed to allow humans to avoid partnering with people who are too old for them.
TIL after a local article highlighted the lavish lifestyle of Alan Ralsky in 2003 (known as the "spam king" for sending millions of bulk email solicitations), critics found his physical address ...
Instances of people submitting fake or nonsense scholarly articles to expose an academic journal as a predatory publisher. List of sexually active popes: A surprisingly long list for a supposedly celibate role. List of shoe-throwing incidents: The recurring trend of high-ranking people being attacked with shoes. List of wrong anthems incidents
BSc meteorologist Janice Davila tells Bored Panda that one of the most unknown facts from her field of expertise is that weather radars are slightly tilted upward in a half-degree (1/2°) angle.
An infamous article by The Sun that claimed that animals such as unicorns and bat-winged humans were found living on the moon. Great Stink: A London summer so smelly it prompted government action. Charles J. Guiteau: The strangest man to ever assassinate a US President.