No matter how educated you think you are, there’s always something new to learn . If your goal is to understand the world better, it helps to be intellectually humble and open-minded, while being discerning and wary of misinformation, as a good scientist should.

Today, we’re featuring some of the most bizarre and unsettling facts about the world, science, and history from the ‘Extremely Weird’ page and ‘Weird Facts’ group on Facebook. Keep scrolling if you want to be spooked or you’re in the mood to learn something unusual today.

He wasn't supposed to survive. He got 35 more years anyway. A man is hanging lifeless from a utility pole, 20 feet in the air, his body limp against his harness. The only thing keeping him from falling is a belt buckle. It's 1967. Randall Champion and J.D. Thompson are just doing routine maintenance the kind of job they'd done a hundred times before. Then Champion's hand brushes a live wire. In an instant, he's unconscious. No pulse. No time. Thompson can't get him down. There's no room to do CPR up there. So he does the only thing he can: he presses his mouth to his partner's and breathes for him. Again. Again. Again. Somewhere below, a photographer named Rocco Morabito happens to be driving by. He hears the shouting, looks up, and lifts his camera not knowing he's about to capture one of the most powerful images in photography history. Thompson feels a pulse. Unbuckles his own harness. Carries Champion down the pole on his shoulder like a fireman. Starts CPR on the ground with another lineman at his side. By the time the ambulance arrives, Champion is breathing on his own. He would go on to live another 35 years. That split-second decision to keep breathing air into a man everyone else might've given up on bought him three and a half more decades of life. Birthdays. Holidays. Time with people he loved. This is why CPR training exists. This is why knowing what to do in those first few minutes matters more than almost anything else you'll ever learn. You don't need to be a hero. You just need to know what to do. Get certified. You never know whose 35 years you're holding in your hands.

Ideally, you’ll find the right balance between intellectual humility on the one hand and healthy skepticism on the other.

Being completely objective and unbiased is impossible. And yet, we can (and should) be more objective while avoiding misinformation and disinformation as much as possible.

That’s easier said than done, though, with a veritable flood of iffy ‘facts,’ fake content, and propaganda online. And some individuals are more prone to believing misinformation.

The American Psychological Association points out that detecting false info is difficult. “When we encounter new information, we tend to focus on understanding it and deciding what to do next, rather than evaluating it for accuracy.”

Usha Ram, 55, had been flipping burgers and cooking at a Vancouver Burger King franchise for 24 years. No write-ups. No drama. Just loyal, steady work. One day, she finished her shift starving and realized she'd left her wallet at home. She'd eaten nothing all day, so she asked her supervisor if she could take a meal and pay on her next shift. She heard a yes. She walked out with a fish sandwich, fries, and a drink. With her employee discount, the whole thing came to under a dollar. Then came the twist. The manager claimed she'd only approved the sandwich. When Usha came back for her next shift, she wasn't handed an apron. She was accused of stealing and fired on the spot under the company's "zero tolerance" policy. English isn't her first language. Her lawyers argued this was an honest misunderstanding, not a crime, and that 24 years of spotless service should count for something. The judge agreed. Justice Miriam Warren ruled there was no intent to steal, called the firing excessively harsh, and said the employer acted in an insensitive, bad-faith way toward a long-serving worker. The verdict: $46,000 $21,000 in lost wages $25,000 in aggravated damages for emotional distress Twenty-four years of loyalty, tossed over fries worth pennies. The employer paid for it.