It doesn't matter if you're 7 or 77 and who the current president is—there's always room for learning. Whether we're talking about a new skill, language, or simply broadening our understanding of the world, the knowledge is out there. All you have to do is seek it!
The online project "Mind blowing facts" is a good place to start. It runs on multiple social media platforms, sharing random trivia about the human psychology, the animal kingdom, Hollywood, and pretty much everything you can imagine.
Since millions of people follow it on the internet, we thought you'd like to check out their content as well, so continue scrolling, and have a look at some of the most popular posts "Mind blowing facts" has made so far.
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#1 Cactus Leather
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#2 Porkchop The Search Dog
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Digging up obscure facts isn't just fun. Turns out, it's also good for our mental health. For example, experts say that playing trivia games can provide a dopamine rush much like gambling, but without the negative effects.
Even if our trivia games differ, the benefits are there. Whether we're playing Trivial Pursuit at home or attending a pub trivia night, the basic premise remains the same: we experience the thrill of providing correct answers to questions about lesser-known facts.
#3 Hemp
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#4 Hero Cat
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#5 Hanwriting Competition
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"You get a rush or a neuroreward signal or a dopamine burst from winning,” John Kounios, Ph.D., professor of psychology and director of the doctoral program in applied cognitive and brain sciences at Drexel University in Pennsylvania, told Healthline. “I think whenever you’re challenged with a trivia question and you happen to know it, you get a rush. It’s sort of like gambling.”
#6 Robin Williams
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#7 Rescued Elephants
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#8 Cocoa Industry
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#9 Mercedes-Benz
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Kounios said the benefits can also be similar to those of playing a video game.
However, unlike gambling and even video games, Kounios said trivia is generally not a problematic habit.
“I don’t think there are any pitfalls,” he said. “Like anything else that’s fun, it takes up time.”
#10 Riots In Ukraine
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#11 Teaching A Cat
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#12 Wilma Rudolph
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#13 Steve Buscemi
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A librarian from California, Sarah Kishler, loves trivia games and enjoys attending a monthly pub trivia night in which a team of librarians participate.
"Learning facts so that I can get better at trivia is definitely a passion of mine," she told Healthline. "Getting a question right is definitely very satisfying to me."
#14 Hero Dog
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#15 Tribute To Spock
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#16 Tattoo Removal
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#17 Loyal Dog
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Over the past decade or so, pub trivia nights that are popular in the United Kingdom appear to have grown in other parts of Europe and the United States.
Enthusiasts like Kishler enjoy getting to interact with people at these events, especially compared to electronic trivia games.
She has learned that doing well at these social trivia games gives her "a feeling of validation" and increases her self-esteem.
#18 South Pole
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#19 The Infinite Monkey Theorem
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#20 Lions Save A Girl
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#21 Japanese Education System
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"I love general knowledge, geography, literature, music, science trivia," Kishler explained. "I just love to accumulate knowledge. I like the exercise that it gives my brain and memory."
She doesn't think of herself as a competitive person but nevertheless enjoys getting a bit amped up at trivia games.
#22 Fashion In Animals
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#23 Tunnel System
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#24 Taking Care Of A Crocodile
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#25 Buddha's Hair Secret
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“People really like to have some expertise on something and the brain is very good at focusing on things that you’re interested in,” Deborah Stokes, Ph.D., L.P.C., B.C.N., a psychologist in Virginia, who focuses on neurotherapy, also told Healthline.
#26 R. Norris Williams
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#27 Beehive
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#28 Phoebe And Tillie
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#29 Polish Doctor
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According to Stokes, learning large bodies of knowledge can often start with trivia. And people who are interested in trivia can be brainy, have a high IQ, and be smart on a lot of levels.
However, Kounios said that people aren’t necessarily better at trivia games just because they’re more educated.
#30 Students In Estonia
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#31 Twice Born Baby
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#32 New Type Of Calligraphy
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#33 Street Dogs
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"Some people soak up facts,” Kounios added. "Plenty of people with a lot more education may not remember what they had for breakfast yesterday morning."
"In typical people, my observation, not backed up by any research, is that their interest in trivia is confined to topics that they are generally interested in. So if a person is very interested in history, then they may either seek out history trivia, or they might just naturally pick it up in the course of learning about nontrivial aspects of history."
#34 Star Wars
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#35 The Horror Frog
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#36 Siberian Huskeys
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#37 Restoring Eyesight
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Stokes pointed out that trying to retain information about things we're interested in can be like a good exercise for the frontal cortex as the brain ages.
"That’s the first thing to go with injury or with age if we don’t use it," she said.
#38 A Killer Whale
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#39 Lying Competition
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#40 Recovered Solidier
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Of course, it's completely understandable if all the stress and negativity sometimes drains your brain of the desire to learn and exhausts it instead.
In an earlier Bored Panda interview, Lenore Skenazy, the president of Let Grow and the founder of the Free-Range-Kids movement, said that before we can become curious again, we have to do the hard part: get off the couch. Force yourself out the door. Why? Because beyond your four walls, things are never exactly the same. Weather, animals, people, sounds, smells, clouds—they’re all swirling about."
#41 Titanic
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#42 The Loyalty Of Dogs
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#43 Lost Man
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#44 Lead Levels
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#45 River In Nova Scotia
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#46 Detective Cats
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#47 "Mind The Gap"
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#48 Whiskey Drinking Cow
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#49 Hungarian Guard Dog
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#50 Australia, World War II
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#51 Change Of Packaging Saved Lives
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#52 Girl Save By Her Dog
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#53 Hero Pig
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#54 Mother Of The Year
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#55 April Fools
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#56 Elephants Have Feelings Too
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#57 Extinct Rio
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#58 Aerosmith
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#59 Sergeant Stubby
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#60 Telegraph Invention
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#61 King Penguin
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#62 Debating Ideas
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#63 Right To Lght
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#64 Candy Desk
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#65 Bald Eagles
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#66 A Greek Priest
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#67 Hospital Beds
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#68 Crow Nests
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#69 The Number 8
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#70 Power Of Pregnancy
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#71 Wax Worms And Plastic
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#72 The Young Inventor
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#73 Spider - Man
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#74 Deep-Sea Gigantism
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#75 Auto-Brewery Syndrome
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#76 The Stalker Of Robert Pattinson
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#77 Viking Warriors
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#78 Journey Of Jason Lewis
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#79 "Secret Santa"
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#80 Prisonier
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#81 The Threads Of God
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#82 Alpacas And Turkeys
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#83 Cigarettes With Drugs
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#84 Famous Hacker
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#85 Don Rickles
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#86 Solid Grape Concentrate
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#87 Snapple Flood
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#88 Public Diamond Mine
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#89 Returned Motorcycle
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#90 Kangaroo And A Teddy Bear
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#91 Employed Shiba Inu
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#92 Dachshund The Hero
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#93 Typhoon Turbine
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#94 Woman Can See More Colors
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#95 Identical Death
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#96 Jaws
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#97 Jay Leno
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#98 Russian Scientist
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#99 Kung Fu Panda
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#100 A Spanish Conductor
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#101 Dolly Parton
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#102 Most Dangerous Animal
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#103 Indiana Bell Building
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#104 Betty Robinson
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#105 Young Chess Player
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#106 Blind Man Riding A Bike
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#107 Lucky Evacuation
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#108 Used Christmas Trees
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#109 Game For Kids With Cancer
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#110 Dog Breed Looks Like A Fox
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#111 Jewish Boxer
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#112 Rice-Fish Culture
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#113 Sea Snail
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#114 Cherry Trees
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#115 Black Cats
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#116 Compound In Conifers
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#117 Secret Cemetery
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#118 Hibernation Genes In Humans
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#119 Smell Of Cat Heads
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#120 Drunk Moose
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#121 Cat Behavior
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#122 Radio Control
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#123 Sleeping King Penguins
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#124 Skyscrapers In Providence
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#125 Chipmunks
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#126 Elvis Merchandise
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#127 Footprints In Wood
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#128 Zombie Apocalypse
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#129 Snake Venom
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#130 Cats Hissing
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