After seeing another article about Millennials ruining education, twitter user Jenny Bann brought up some relevant information regarding the disciplinary history of students of yesteryear.
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Prepare to have the horizons of your knowledge expanded before your very eyes. These fascinating facts are little nuggets of truth, wisdom, and sometimes weirdness. Not only will you learn some things that may never come in handy outside the trivia room, you will also gain some very valuable new shower thought material. WINNING.
WTF facts are so fun. The world is brimming with infinite tidbits of information about the randomest of things, from science to animals to humans to the earth to literally anything in existence. Really. There's a world of information out there that we don't know about, and it blows our minds just thinking about it.
OK, we know how these sound. They are pretty far-fetched, but believe us when we assure you that all of these facts are true. Yes, even the one about the emu war. These facts are all factual. That is a fact. I feel like I could get sucked into a wormhole if I keep on going so I'll just stop there. Enjoy the factual facts.
It's Monday and you're presumably at work, and bored. Don't worry. We're here for you. We made this collection of 10 amazing facts to lift you right out of that boredom and possibly get you lost on trains of thought throughout the day. But hey, you won't be bored anymore. You're welcome.
There's not much better to crush your boredom than a couple of interesting facts. Not only do they teach you something new, they also provide great material for shower thoughts and also help you immensely at trivia. So many benefits! So what are you waiting for? Start absorbing those facts!
Sometimes someone just comes along and gives us something that we would never have dreamed of, and right now it's this guy right here. He has done us an amazing service by providing his analysis on something we never even knew we needed, something that we are still pretty sure we don't need.
Regardless, it's here and it's indiscriminate of gender. As, in true internet form, this enlightened individual has provided us unnecessary insight into the asses of history.
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The War on Christmas has been going since the beginning of Christmas, apparently.
Adam might have ruined the history behind It’s a Wonderful Life, but today today he’s going for the yuletide jugular.
In this clip from “Adam Ruins Christmas,” Adam Conover takes audiences on an animated journey back to ancient solstice festivals to mark the end of Harvests. These parties were filled with cool things like cross dressing and fire — not tinsel, Aunt Mary-Anne. They were also the original Christmas celebrations, before a certain someone crashed the party.
Eventually, Adam tells that when Christians took over, they gradually introduced Jesus into these celebrations as a compromise. Citizens of newfound Christian municpalities could continue their celebrations if they included Jesus, so December 25 became Jesus' birthday party.
