❗Curious Facts Contest #9 is starting NOW 🔈+ Winners from contest's edition #8 + Looking for WHALES 🐋 or DOLPHINS 🐬 to support

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Hey there, previous contest got 13 great entries. Curious Facts initiative is blooming thanks to all of you Steemians willing to write quality content but we still need some support from whales or dolphins to grow the prize pool which is 50% from post's payout.

Search in #curiousfacts to get inspired and write a post with some fact. It could be anything about our world - animals, history, your country, the human body. Just anything you've read or you know and it's a fact! Please read the rules carefully and follow them.

❗RULES❗

1️⃣ UPVOTE AND RESTEEM THIS POST

2️⃣ YOUR POST HAS TO INCLUDE AT LEAST ONE FACT AND HAS TO BE PUBLISHED WITH FIRST TAG #curiousfacts

3️⃣ COMMENT UNDER THIS POST WITH A LINK TO YOUR POST WITH SOME CURIOUS FACTS

4️⃣ THE TITLE OF YOUR POST HAS TO START WITH CURIOUS FACTS CONTEST #9 and then your own title

5️⃣ ONLY 1 ENTRY PER USER
OLD AND EDITED POSTS ARE NOT ALLOWED (of course you are welcome to use the #curiousfacts tag when you like but only the first post and including the mentioned criterias above will count as an entry)

❗ALL POSTS WITH FIRST TAG #curiousfacts get a RESTEEM and my UPVOTE during the contest

❗PRIZE❗

🔝I am again giving 50% of this post's SBD after it pays out in 7 days.
The 3 entries having most upvotes not as a value but as a count of people who have upvoted them will equally share the PRIZE. Please do not beg others for upvotes and play fair.

🔝 If there are posts with equal upvote count they will again split their share. So it is very possible to have more than 3 winners.

ANY SUPPORT from WHALES 🐋 or DOLPHINS 🐬 to grow the contest’s prize pool would be much appreciated.

😁 This contest idea is not only posting and winning some rewards but building a stronger community connections by presenting some valuable information to each other. Shall we learn some new facts? Let's get started posting! 😁

See how the contest has developed in time and what great entries the previous editions have acquired:

Curious Facts Contest #6

Curious Facts Contest #7

Curious Facts Contest #8

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WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT from CURIOUS FACTS CONTEST #8

AND THE MOMENT OF TRUTH! Let's see who got most upvotes as a count from previous contest's edition #8!
But before the winners announcement I would like to say THANK YOU to all of you who have entered the contest. 16 great entries this week. This is the best support that such a initiative can get to become more popular under its own tag #curiousfacts. Please feel free to use the #curiousfacts tag any time you have some interesting facts to share.**

Search in #curiousfacts if you are willing to learn something new today...

Winners are sharing 50% of the contest's SBD payout which is 2,053 SBD. If there are entries with equal upvote count they will also split the prize equally.

WINNERS

1️⃣

@hoosain with some great amount of 40 upvotes forCURIOUS FACTS CONTEST #8 | Amazing and Curious Facts about Pearls
And @josephlacsamana who is also having 40 upvotes for 🔎Curious Facts CONTEST#8: THE BIBLE ALREADY SAID THAT THE EARTH IS CIRCLE!

They will share the prize of 0,684 SBD. Transfer will be made shortly.

2️⃣

@nilhamaz with 26 upvotes for CURIOUS FACTS CONTEST #8 - 8 FACTS ABOUT THE FEROCIOUS TIGER
Prize 0,684 SBD will be transferred shortly.

3️⃣

@zija2022 with 23 upvotes for Curious Facts CONTEST#8 - More wired cheese facts Cheese worth more than crypto 💴💵💶💷 😎 - There is a cheese bank in Italy
Prize 0,684 SBD will be transferred shortly.

CONGRATS!

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Here is my entry for this contest! The Origin and Importance of Cashew!

https://steemit.com/curiousfacts/@profevd/curious-facts-contest-9-or-the-origin-of-the-cashew

Thank you. Just dropped a comment under your post. :)

Youve just bid 7.69sbd worth $20 on a bid bot, ebargain whose max bid is $12 !! thus losing you money and wasting the money of the other people with small sensible bids...do you not use https://steembottracker.com/ or do you not understand how these bid bots work ? If you need help, let me know :-)
PS The problem with people voting for the winners is that they go on small microworking sites and buy upvotes. Just watch for linked voting patterns and good luck :-)

A huge mistake has happened. I set the transfer to 1 SBD and somehow transferred all my SBD to the bot. Probably caus I did it trough my phone. I know about the steembot tracker and the way bots work, thank you. Any suggestions on how to get back my SBD...probably there is no refund.

Already too late.. @ebargains has voted me.

oh no I'm sorry, I wondered if it could be an error as it was such an early vote. Good luck with your great competition and I hope you get a lot of notice and followers from your mistake.

Yeah let’s hope this mistake is for good. 😊 Once more thank you for your concern.

Must be the same mistake @bunnypuncher committed when he ended up transferring all of what he had on his wallet to me instead of just 1sbd.

Too bad for me I just saw this challenge. I just posted a factoid I just learned yesterday. Anyway, maybe next time. Good luck with this fun challenge!

To be hones this is happening second time to me. Only because I make the transfer trough the phone which obviously I need to stop doing.

And you still have enough time to join the contest. It is ending up on Sunday afternoon. You are very welcome to submit an entry.

Understandable. I do too many mistakes on my too just because of my fat fingers!

You got a 72.19% upvote and resteem from @ebargains courtesy of @river-island. Thank you for using the @ebargains UPVOTE and RESTEEM bot.

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very useful, but I am just a beginner who is still learning to be able to achieve as you are

Which part exactly you find useful? :)

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Extremely happy to win the 2nd place.
Thanks for the contest @river-island

You are welcome. 😊

Good luck! I have just dropped a comment under your post. 😊

Thankyou! I appreciated you! <3 @river-island will surely join with your contest :D

Thanks @river-island for keeping up with this contest. I love technology. I am an IT guy by career. So i love facts related to Information Technology. Here is the link to my entry: https://steemit.com/curiousfacts/@focusnow/facts-contest-9-in-windows-you-cannot-name-a-folder-con-here-is-why

And thank you for joining the contest and sharing some interesting technology facts. It's so nice to have a passion in certain topic and to write about it. :)

I have a suggestion, in the case of @hoosain and @josephlacsamana (myself) we are the Highest number of upvotes. We should have the highest prize even though we have the same upvotes.

Or you can change your rules, do not base on the number of upvotes. That's why a lot of minnows not joining in your contest because they know they're not famous to received 10 + upvotes.

Just a suggestion...

Thank you!

I know you've got a point my friend. And I am thinking how to change the rules. When I was starting the contest I didn't want to judge the posts myself and to pick them by once I like the most caus I didn't feel that is right. Thinking of finding some guest judges maybe or setting up some criteria for winning.

I will appreciate if you have any suggestions to share with me and I would defiantly consider them and change the rules.

Sorry for a late reply/response.

Maybe you need to specify a curios facts "ABOUT": a certain place, event, person, country, nature etc.

Minimum Fact 1 Maximum facts 3 per person.

for example.

Curious Facts about the Philippines #1

Rules

Give at least 1 fact maximum of 3 facts per person.

and you need to have a judge/s to choose the winner.

You can be that judge. or if you don't want to be a judge you can use a name picker :)

Random picker :D Hehehe.

so that all of minnows can join your contest :) no need to have big number of upvotes!

I am really considering your suggestions. Thank you so much for your support. Next contest definitely will follow some of your guidelines. :)

Thank you :) When is your next contest?

Probably I will make a new one on this Sunday if I have enough time reconsider the rules and structure them well. 😊

Much appreciated you’ve joined the contest. Just check your entry. Nice 👍

Nice, thank you and good luck. 😊

Jesus sent us to reap where we did not sow. This is a new. and curious fact to me. Below is my entry linkhttps://steemit.com/curiousfacts/@oguns/curious-facts-contest-9-reap-where-you-didn-t-sow-thus-said-jesus

screw the whales and the already rich, tear down the world and rebuild it brick by brick :p .. content nazis is the worst thing about my place i hope my meagre vote helps something, anything at all

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👍 Definitely agree! Something need to change here.