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@funfactsthursdays
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918subscribers
+51 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001161524755 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @funfactsthursdays |
| Created | Between 1 March 2018 and 31 July 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 27 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 9 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 3 times, most recently 27 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/funfactsthursdays |
Science — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 19 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 66% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and the other topics.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Oct 2026, 03:37 | 918 | +10 |
| 2 Oct 2026, 01:35 | 908 | +10 |
| 16 Sept 2026, 16:36 | 898 | +8 |
| 8 Sept 2026, 03:54 | 890 | +13 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 01:04 | 877 | +3 |
| 21 Aug 2026, 05:52 | 874 | +5 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 14:35 | 869 | +2 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 00:47 | 867 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 00:39 | 867 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 2 April 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 6 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
17 reactions across 14 posts, in 4 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 82.4% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 14 | 82.4% | |
| 👍 | 1 | 5.88% | |
| 🔥 | 1 | 5.88% | |
| 😁 | 1 | 5.88% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 16 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 17 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 2 April 2026 to 6 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
🧠🌱 Brains Aren't the Only Thinkers?! 🤯✨ 🦎 What if intelligence isn't about having a brain at all? Scientist Michael Levin says intelligence is really about working towards a goal, even when things get in the way. 🌟 Tiny cells, plants and even simple living things can solve problems and adapt, even without a brain! 👀 One amazing example is a tadpole that grew eyes on its tail instead of its head. 😲 Its nervous system…
☄️👃 What Does a Comet Smell Like?
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☄️👃 What Does a Comet Smell Like? 🚀 If you could somehow smell a comet, you’d probably wish you hadn’t! When the European Space Agency’s Philae lander studied comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, it found a mix of chemicals that create some very unpleasant odors. Scientists say the scent would combine rotten eggs, cat urine, burning matches, and bitter almonds—definitely not the fresh smell of outer space! 🧪 The strang…
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☁️🌤️ The Surprisingly Heavy Cloud! 😲 ☁️ Clouds look soft, light, and fluffy, but they are far heavier than most people imagine. A typical cloud can weigh around one million tonnes! That’s because even though each tiny water droplet is incredibly small, there are billions of them spread across a huge space—often about 1 cubic kilometre in volume. 🌬️ So why doesn’t a cloud fall from the sky? The trick is that the drop…
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🤝🧠 Cooperation or Competition? Maybe We’re Built for Both! 🌍 Humans love to think of themselves as naturally kind and cooperative—and it’s true that working together helped our ancestors survive. Sharing food, raising children, and protecting one another made life possible. But the essay argues that this is only half the story. We also evolved to compete, cheat, and seek personal advantage when we think we can get aw…
🏰🌿 The Medici’s Lost Garden of Wonders 🌳 Long before modern amusement parks existed, the powerful Medici family built something amazingly playful in 16th-century Tuscany. The Villa di Pratolino was filled with hidden fountains that sprayed unsuspecting guests, clever mechanical automata, and spectacular water-powered inventions. Instead of following the elegant Renaissance style, it was designed to surprise and enter…
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⏳🔥 Time Might Be Real Because Things Heat Up 🌡️ Many people have heard that time could be an illusion. After all, some of the fundamental equations of physics work just as well forward as backward. If you filmed two planets orbiting each other and played the footage in reverse, the motion would still obey the laws of physics. So where does our strong sense that time flows in one direction come from? This Aeon video …
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🧠🐙 Could We Be Making the Same Mistake About AI That We Made About Animals? 🐾 For centuries, humans assumed that animals were little more than instinct-driven machines. Many scientists and philosophers believed that creatures such as dogs, birds and even octopuses couldn’t truly think, feel or experience the world the way humans do. Yet modern research has steadily challenged that view, revealing signs of problem-so…
🏛️🌍 The “Louvre of the Desert” Tells the Story of Humanity 🌞 In the middle of the desert in Abu Dhabi sits the incredible Louvre Abu Dhabi — a museum designed to show that human history is deeply connected across cultures. Instead of separating art by country, the museum places objects from different civilizations side by side. A statue from Asia, a painting from Europe, and artifacts from Africa might all appear to…
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😱🧠 Your Brain Was Born Ready to Detect Danger - Two Fears we are all born with 👶🔊 Scientists believe humans may enter the world with only *TWO* of built-in fear responses: sudden loud noises and the fear of falling. Even very young babies who have never experienced real danger can react strongly to these situations. Researchers think this is part of an ancient survival system that helped early humans stay alive long…
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🧠🧟 The “Zombie Idea” of Psychopathy 🧩 This article argues that the idea of “psychopathy” refuses to die — even though many scientists and psychologists question whether it’s a real, clearly defined condition. The author calls it a “zombie idea” because it keeps coming back in movies, courts, and pop psychology despite weak scientific foundations. 🎭 One major criticism is that psychopathy often mixes together very …
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🦈 Sharks Existed Longer Than Trees 🌳🌊 🦷 Sharks are some of the oldest survivors on Earth. The first shark-like creatures appeared around 450 million years ago, swimming through ancient oceans long before dinosaurs, mammals, or even trees existed. Trees only began spreading across the planet about 390 million years ago, which means sharks had already been around for tens of millions of years before the first forests a…
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @funfactsthursdays. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 13 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Fun Facts Thursdays😳🙈😱😄😂😂” (@funfactsthursdays), 918 subscribers as measured 13 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/funfactsthursdays.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.