Excessively so. I literally want to know everything. But then it also gets me annoyed because I’ll be with people who don’t know something that seems obvious to me…
Did anyone else grow up with The Readers Digest in the house? I've often wondered if that's where I got my love of reading about things that don't really pertain to me. Little bits of this and that. We also had an enormous dictionary, HUGE. My Mom was always saying things that we had to look up. LOL
DH and I are both like this. He almost exclusively reads nonfiction about the most random things (like highway systems) and my favorite website is etymonline.com It's an online etymology dictionary. I love looking up random words to find out where they came from.
When I was teaching 5th grade, I would have so many students asking me random questions (often science-related) that I created a "burning questions" wall and every once in a while we would take time to answer them. One of my favorites was "Why do Karens exist?"
DH and I love pub trivia, and we usually do fairly well considering we're a 2-person team and are often up against teams of 4-10 players.
I’m a very curious person. I don’t remember anything but I love learning new things. Fiancé remembers all kinds of random shit. Probably once a week I’ll look at him incredulously and say, “How do you just know shit!?!?”
I either didn't know or didn't recall that fact about flamingos. Now I have a new question: what do they eat, and if they ate other things, what color would they be?
I like rando facts and trivia, so much so that my son has embraced it too and is on his school's Quiz Bowl team. He slays at geography and world events. And politics. He's 12 going on 30.
I Google and learn random facts all day. I also read two newspapers a day and really try to stay on top of current events. I’m good at trivia, not so much at life lol
I used to work at a zoo - the reasons flamingos are pink is pretty well known now. I can tell you many other random animal facts : giraffe tongues are 18 inches and a purplish black color so they don’t get sunburned! Flamingos legs aren’t actually bending the “wrong” way - that’s your ankle bone you are seeing and that are standing on their toes! (You can’t see their knee bone - it’s too high up). The Tapir looks like a pig but is just closely related to a horse!
I either didn't know or didn't recall that fact about flamingos. Now I have a new question: what do they eat, and if they ate other things, what color would they be?
I like rando facts and trivia, so much so that my son has embraced it too and is on his school's Quiz Bowl team. He slays at geography and world events. And politics. He's 12 going on 30.
in the wild it’s a type of algae and shrimp mix - things high in caratenoids. They would be white otherwise.
Post by basilosaurus on Oct 7, 2023 18:05:09 GMT -5
You want me in your trivia team unless it's poorly dinner trivia that's all pop culture. I went to a trivia where even the science category was like who played scientist in... and what was the fake disease in...
As a kid my parents would get various trivia type books that I devoured.
I don't think that makes me superior, but I love that kind of thing. Ask me about penis size in the animal kingdom
Excessively so. I literally want to know everything. But then it also gets me annoyed because I’ll be with people who don’t know something that seems obvious to me…
have you been watching celebrity Jeopardy? I keep yelling at them for not knowing what I consider to be basics
Post by sporklemotion on Oct 7, 2023 18:18:57 GMT -5
I am curious but, like some others in this thread, I don’t retain much. It’s perfect because I’m constantly re-delighting myself with “new” information that I probably first learned long ago.
Yes I am, and I’m constantly surprised when I run into people who aren’t. Sure, I have gaps in my knowledge (especially pop culture trivia) but I thought it was fairly common knowledge that flamingos are pink because of their diet, so anyone who didn’t know that I would assume was basically living under a rock.
Finding this Twitter quote is the only reason I have opened Twitter in the past two months. Because, it is so me.
Post by followyourarrow on Oct 7, 2023 19:41:24 GMT -5
I love information and trivia. FI jokes that I’m like a little kid that never outgrew the million questions phase. Thankfully he does his best to explain anything I ask about, like the swamp, boats, shrimping, etc.
Did anyone else grow up with The Readers Digest in the house? I've often wondered if that's where I got my love of reading about things that don't really pertain to me. Little bits of this and that. We also had an enormous dictionary, HUGE. My Mom was always saying things that we had to look up. LOL
I also had the encyclopedia set in my room. Sure, let’s see what R has in it tonight. Tomorrow, maybe we’ll read L. Fascinating.
I’m super curious and know lots of random stuff, but I have a terrible memory for specific details so I can’t ever really speak intelligently about all of my knowledge haha. I knew that about flamingoes but couldn’t tell you what they eat, even though someone just said it in the thread. My mind just filters that stuff out and refuses to remember it.
Did anyone else grow up with The Readers Digest in the house? I've often wondered if that's where I got my love of reading about things that don't really pertain to me. Little bits of this and that. We also had an enormous dictionary, HUGE. My Mom was always saying things that we had to look up. LOL
I also had the encyclopedia set in my room. Sure, let’s see what R has in it tonight. Tomorrow, maybe we’ll read L. Fascinating.
I distinctly remember my brother and I each picking a random book from our encyclopedia set and reading through it for interesting tidbits.
We also were a big magazine family so I regularly read Readers Digest, Time, and Good Housekeeping.
You probably would not be surprised to learn that we didn't have cable TV LOL. We had a lot of free time to fill.
The constant question in my house is, "How do you know that?!" I usually have no idea. I don't know why I know who won the Kentucky Derby in 2019. I don't watch horse racing and find it a disturbing sport. I think I just consume a lot of media and have a good memory. Don't ask me what movie we went to last week though because I would struggle remembering. Brains are weird.
Post by basilosaurus on Oct 8, 2023 3:54:08 GMT -5
Just don't ask me to remember your name no matter how many times you say it and I repeat it (supposedly the key to remembering).
I'm currently reading a book in trivia about death. Highly recommend! It's by Caitlin doughty who has a massively popular following. I devoured again and again the how did they do that books and similar. I know about ambergris because of one of them. And ship wreck hunting and and and
Post by wanderlustmom on Oct 8, 2023 6:59:35 GMT -5
Yes I’m mostly curious about people which helps that I chose therapy as a profession. I’m curious about history and cultures and love to read but like many I don’t retain it all like I want to. My husband isn’t curious about people but he loves sports, trivia, history and math and he does not forget it!
Yes I’m mostly curious about people which helps that I chose therapy as a profession. I’m curious about history and cultures and love to read but like many I don’t retain it all like I want to. My husband isn’t curious about people but he loves sports, trivia, history and math and he does not forget it!
MH is like this! There’s this sports game he’s playing where they give you a team or a stat and you have to match it up with a player who fulfills both (I am explaining this very poorly but it’s like a chart). He and his brothers are obsessed and he’s remembering randos from the 70s and 80s and is filing away tidbits from offhand comnents of sports commentators to use later. He forgets NOTHING!