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Discover mind-blowing facts about our world that will spark your curiosity and expand your horizons. The post “Enlighten Yourself”: 50 Random Facts That Are Too Interesting To Scroll Past (New ...
Image credits: factz.unheard 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 ...
On Wikipedia and other sites running on MediaWiki, Special:Random can be used to access a random article in the main namespace; this feature is useful as a tool to generate a random article. Depending on your browser, it's also possible to load a random page using a keyboard shortcut (in Firefox , Edge , and Chrome Alt-Shift + X ).
Image credits: Flares117 Another interesting fact about the family who couldn't sleep comes from Redditor u/Potatoe_expert.Science writer and author of the book about said family The Family That ...
Wikipedia:Fact of the Day/December 18, 2024 Fact of the Day is a section that tries to house different facts from articles or stubs that cannot be housed elsewhere, like Featured Article, Selected Anniversaries, or Did You Know.
Image credits: Zahir Khan #11. Some 3,000 years ago, in modern-day Iran, ancient engineers created the Qanat—an ingenious underground system to carry water over long distances.
Random pages tests by various editors can be found in Category:Random pages tests, although the category is not comprehensive. The concept of random sampling is not exactly original to Wikipedia; indeed, various editors seem to have independently conceived the idea in Wikipedia's context several times over. The earliest tests date back to 2003.
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.