For all the creepy unsettling facts out there, it's goof to have a balance of nice facts to counteract all the messed up ones. For every fact about brain eating zombie fungi or how many missing nuclear bombs there are in the world, there's another fact about how cows have best friends and how much of a bro Jupiter is.
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At any point in life, you might just be a few interesting facts away from being creeped out. There's so much to learn about the habits of serial killers, the effects of certain poisons, awful trivia and unsettling details of things you thought were fine. For more, here are some not-so-fun facts to feel bad about.
Just about everyone grew up watching the Simpsons, and the show remains a wonderful memory for many of us, up to somewhere around season 9. Here are some Simpsons facts, from ideas that got dropped, to obscure canon, to the real world inspirations for certain episodes. Here are some absurd moments of cartoon logic that make perfect sense.
There's a lot of people walking around with their heads still full of garbage they heard on the bus in 6th grade, and they're more than willing to tell you with full confidence that bears lay eggs. From absurd falsehoods to nonexistent laws that people insist are real, people are willing to say some absurd things in complete seriousness.
For whatever reason, there are a few common misconceptions that are way too persistent. After mountains of evidence to the contrary, your uncle will still sit at the dinner table and proudly proclaim an untrue "fact" in complete seriousness. Even complete strangers will still come up to you and insist certain laws are true when they don't actually exist.
They say that what you don't know can't hurt you, but after you read enough, you kind of come to the conclusion that that's totally untrue. There are a lot of unknowns out there that can absolutely hurt you, and there's a lot of things out there that will just make you feel bad to know. For other facts, here are wild sex facts to quote during an awkward silence and some happy facts to counteract all the messed up ones.
If you needed any more chilling reminders that you aren't as secure as you might have thought, here are some not fun facts and observations about supervolcanoes, biology and physics that could do the trick. To undo some of these, here are some nice facts to counteract all the messed up ones.
Here's a smattering of historically themed memes, wtf facts and fun moments. Here are some more history memes to get your past on, or this hilarious and intriguing Tumblr thread that actually makes history fun. For a real intriguing one, here's a tumblr thread that stresses how important mundane people are to understanding history.
The minds of Tumblr just shoot wild thoughts around like a pinball machine, resulting in some nuggets of gold from Tumblr's busy brains. You've got off-the-wall movie ideas, quizzical musings on history, intriguing observations, and strange anecdotes. There are too many comedy gems from the world of Tumblr.
The more you learn about history, the more it kind of makes sense that nothing makes sense. People have been weird and stupid forever, and learning about our many foibles just kind of hammers out the fact that we don't really know what's going on. But hey, knowledge is power, so here are wild sex facts and completely useless facts.
If you're like anyone else, you probably have a bunch of inaccurate BS just banging around in your head. Here are some common myths you might still believe. If these make you feel dumb and you'd like to feel like you know even less, here are facts that feel way too obvious after hearing them.
Learning is supposed to make you feel smart, but sometimes you hear something that makes so much sense that it just makes you feel like an idiot for not having known it. It's not wuite as bad as these obvious things people realized way too late. For something darker, here are random facts that we had no business knowing.
People are pretty great at finding alternate uses for things. Sometimes it's some military invention that gets re-marketed as a household convenience, sometimes it's a reflection of changing times, and sometimes its people realizing it's fun to shoot at each other using a paint-launching logging device. Here are some cool and interesting inventions.
Tumblr gets in real deep sometimes. Sure, a lot of it is just memes and thought exercises, but some threads get into stuff like the historical concept of the color purple in rhyming fashion, or how modern cats became domesticated. So anyway, here's why magenta is a made up color based on your brain just doing its best.
