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People Are Sharing Mind-Blowing Facts Fit For 5-Year-Olds And Here’s 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones
When I first heard that there are more stars than there are grains of sand on all beaches in the world, I went on a mission to count all the grains out there to see if it’s true. Needless to say, "the world" was the size of my yard and I was five or so. You see where I’m going.
The truth is, kids are naturally curious and always ready to soak up the info they cannot entirely grasp. Tell ‘em about the Bermuda Triangle, and I guarantee they will be pulling all-nighters to solve the biggest puzzle on the planet.
So when one Redditor posted the question “What are some cool facts to tell a 5-year-old?" on r/AskReddit, people rolled up their sleeves. 1,400 comments later, the replies are in, and honestly, some of these may work on adults too.
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#1
When they die, ants release pheromones attracting other ants to come and carry their dead bodies away to their graveyards.
Maximilian Stern 5 years ago
IIRC if you were to douse a living ant with said pheromone it would end up being carried off to the graveyard anyway, despite it still being alive.
Alex Newell 5 years ago
And for a while, the victim just believes it themselves.
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Marven Leung 5 years ago
Surprised that ants have graveyards. I thought ants leave nothing to waste and use their fallen fellows' body as food for the young.
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#2
A group of zebras is called a dazzle and a group of giraffes is called a journey
Mark Johanen 5 years ago
Other than a few common ones, like "herd" and "flock", I think the only place I've ever seen collective nouns for groups of animals used is in lists of collective nouns for groups of animals are articles saying "hey, did you know that the word for a group of X is Y?"
#3
Otters sometimes hold hands to sleep when in the water, so that they don't drift apart when floating in the sea
Courtney Christelle 5 years ago
They also anchor themselves with sea weed so they don't drift off.
Pastry Person 5 years ago
i have known this fact for years but whenever i see it i still will think its the cutest thing ever
Kids are naturally curious as they have that thirst for exploring how things work in life. No wonder some of these hard-to-believe facts can seriously blow their minds.
It turns out that not only is being curious a valuable trait on its own, it also contributes to academic achievement. This research has shown that cultivation of curiosity in children is linked to later aptitude in science.
And this 2018 study has shown that the more curious the child, the more likely they may be to perform better in school—regardless of economic background.
#4
Dogs can tell when your coming home by how much of your scent is left in the house if you have a daily routine
#5
You're more likely to be bitten by a shark AND struck by lightning than win the lottery.
Id row 5 years ago
I don't buy this. It all depends on how often you go in the ocean, where in the ocean you go and what you're wearing during a storm and your location for lightening to hit you. For example, I rarely go out and I never swim in the ocean. My odds of hitting the lottery are far greater than getting bit by a shark, because my odds of that are zero, unless we're counting the possibility of a sharknado that can travel a hundred miles.
Shawna Rachelle 5 years ago
not true if you are nowhere near the ocean. I live in the midwest, so maybe getting hit by lightning twice??
Helen Haley 5 years ago
It's a dollar that lets you live a few days in hope and daydreams. Even if you don't win, it is quick hope and it only costs a dollar. I've seen people waste dollars on far dumber things.
CatWoman312 5 years ago (edited)
You’re also more likely to be struck by lightning twice than win the lottery
Nia Loves Art 5 years ago
Does a five year old know how rare or common any of those things are, or even what the lottery is?
Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
I don't remember who said, "The Lottery is a tax on people who can't do math."
#6
A single little brown bat can eat up to 1000 mosquitoes in a single hour.
Tessa Thompson 5 years ago
No, but you should support the protection of bats in the wild and conservation of bat habitat.
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Rainbow Panda 5 years ago
more bats so malaria and other bad stuff won’t happen. And more bats so we aren’t itchy
Princess Procrastination 5 years ago
Thank you so much bats, kill them all so my mozzie allergy is useless jk
Turnip and a Frog 5 years ago
Huh. Wonder if a bat can scoff down a mosquito, like in a soup of sorts, and get a fancy virus. Revenge epic like hell. (it’s ok, ya’ll, I’m not a bat hater).
Eric Von Beagleburger 5 years ago
unless that bat is on the menu in China. Too soon? (never...)
Bored Panda reached out to Kathy Kinsner, the Senior Manager of Parenting Resources at ZERO TO THREE, which brings leaders in the fields of medicine, mental health, and social science to work on a wide range of issues impacting young children and their families.
She has shared some of her insights about the curious minds of children and what parents can do to nurture the hunger for the world around. “The more curious children are, the better they do academically in reading and math once they’re in school,” Kathy explained. Moreover, two traits, initiative and curiosity, are actually goals of early childhood education. Kathy said that these two are the essential qualities of life-long learners.
#7
Astronomer here! Clap your hands once, and then clap them again a second later. The two claps were actually done about 30,000 miles apart thanks to the Earth's motion in space!
David Kohn 5 years ago
i would call you a moron but the circumfrence fo the earth is 25,000 miles so it is impossible but you can be nicer
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#8
The smell of rain is caused by gases released by bacteria in the earth in reaction to rainwater. It's called petrichor, petri meaning stone.
#9
Sharks don't actually like eating people (we apparently taste bad to them), that's why most shark bites stop there. Most sharks bite people out of curiosity or because the person unwittingly provoked the shark
Nevits Yibble 5 years ago
Wouldn't call it a 'fact' just yet. This gets circulated a lot but the matter isn't all that settled and still being studied. We do know sharks use different methods of attack depending on prey - one being exsanguination. They deliver a single bite, then wait for the animal to bleed to death. In this case, stopping at one bite is a tactic (possibly to avoid injury from large, struggling/fighting prey).
François Carré 5 years ago
And while an average of 5 persons die every year from shark attack, 100 MILLION sharks get killed every year by human beings.
And as all young children are driven to learn more about the world as they “examine every bug and blade of grass when they’re out for a walk, turn a light switch on and off to see what happens,” parents should do what they can to encourage the natural sense of wonder.
Kathy adds that setting “some limits to make sure kids are safe (and that our living space isn’t complete chaos)” is fine, but other than that, just go for it.
#10
Turtles can breathe through their butts!
Rabbit Carrot 5 years ago
It’s called cloacal respiration and really only happens during hibernation. It’s more like diffusion rather than breathing but yes it happens through their butts. They’re not the only hibernating animals that do it either.
#11
Every ‘c’ in ‘Pacific Ocean’ is pronounced differently
E Menendez 5 years ago
It is because writing has been around for so long and literacy has increased exponentially. Language changes over time, we just happened to capture the sounds a few centuries ago. Name used to be pronounced exactly like it is spelled for example.
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Mimi777 5 years ago
When I pronounce it, it doesn’t. I think it’s just when it’s pronounced in English. Like by an English speaking person. If that makes sense
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Turnip and a Frog 5 years ago
Three different types of /i/ in the word “sheepishly”, long ee, short i, happy vowel at the end 😊
Maciej Szymczak 5 years ago
English is not a phonetic language, every letter can sound different in different words. Honor, hour, hello, hi, humor... If you are not native speaker, you can guess :P
#12
If you make an animal sound at the animal, chances are it will answer you back. Turkeys are a good example, they answer almost every time. Sheep are quite regular as well.
Monday 5 years ago
One of my cats do this....the other just stare at me like I'm a weirdo...which is fair considering I'm standing in my bathroom meowing at a group of cats.
Laugh or not 5 years ago
I have very long conversations with my cat. I have no idea what I say, but it must be funny because she keeps answering.
Load More Replies... Courtney Christelle 5 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVbI698Gk1o Pretty freaking awesome.
CatWoman312 5 years ago
Some dogs fall for it or at least get really confused as to why I’m barking lol
François Carré 5 years ago
I like the look of surprise in my hens' eyes when I mimic hen's noises to them.
When it comes to the endless streams of “Why?” that can sometimes be quite exhausting, Kathy suggests that parents be glad they’re asking and “know that this stage won’t last forever.”
It’s great if you can slow down and give an answer, but sometimes, when you don’t have the luxury, you might say: “Hold that thought. Let me pay the parking attendant and I’ll answer you when we’re on the highway.” Another way is to reply to “Why?” with an answer like: “What do you think?” or “How can we find out?”
#13
Octopuses have 3 hearts Plus they have 8 arms, not tentacles And they have blue blood
#14
Pluto hasn't completed a lap around the sun since it was discovered
Rabbit Carrot 5 years ago (edited)
Neptune took until 2011 to do its first since discovery. Uranus has only made 2 and won’t make its 3rd until 2033.
#15
Elephants have special graveyards and mourn their fellow elephants when they die.
Cuddles 5 years ago
I know they mourn (Seen videos where one has died and the others in the group are touching them with their trunks and such) but I don't think they actually have some special place to act as a graveyard. Wherever they are when they go down, is where they stay.
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#16
Birds like chickens descended from dinosaurs. Watch them look at their chicken nuggets in absolute awe
Chris Arlott 5 years ago
wait until they realize that the dino shaped chicken nuggets complete an evolutionary cycle :D
Coleen 5 years ago
The evidence is that Dr. Grant said so in Jurassic Park.
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The fear of long words is known as hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
Mainecoonsandhuskies 5 years ago
hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is every spell bee participant's worst nightmare
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
This is the second time today that I heard this on bored panda.
#18
When you look up at the night sky and see a star, it's because a little particle of light called a photon shot out of the star and traveled across the vast distance of space and time to land safely in your eye. You're catching a little bit of ancient star whenever you see one
Terd Fergison 5 years ago
And some of those stars already died thousands of years ago, but you are just seeing their light now.
Nevits Yibble 5 years ago
Because it takes time for light to travel even the shortest of distances, what's so weird is everything you see is as it was, not as it is. The lamp across the room, the car down the street, the moon, stars, etc. Everything you see is what it used to look like, in its past. And you see each thing in different "times". And everyone else views these same things in their own "times" - different than yours. Okay I need a drink
Zoltán Végh 5 years ago
Most of them are galaxies, because with your eyes only you cant see further than ~1000lightyears..
Marek Yanchurak 5 years ago
The nearest and brightest galaxy is Andromeda, and that's only visible under rather good viewing conditions. The Triangulum Galaxy would be next is only barely visible under the best conditions. Oh, and I believe the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds can be seen unaided too. That's about it. What you are seeing in the night sky, aside from the planets, are all near by stars, there just happens to be a whole hell of a lot of them.
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There are butterflies that mimic the pattern of Monarch butterflies to avoid being eaten by predators because Monarch butterflies are poisonous and predators avoid eating them. In nature, this is called mimicry.
Bjorn 5 years ago
It bothers me when evolution is described as intentional. It should be "There are butterflies that survive due to similatities to poisonous ones. As other butterflies get eaten and die, any variations in appearance that do not provide similatity to monarch butterflies get weeded out, leaving a near-identical butterfly type as a result".
Jo Johannsen 5 years ago
I gotta ask, does the foolish predator who eats one, then keels over dead, come back as a ghost to warn its mates? "Eh, don't eat that one, Fred, look what happened to me! Hey, can you hear me? Fred, you dumba$$, I told you not to eat that!"
#20
The oxygen that we breathe is the same oxygen that has been around since ancient times. In other words, the air you breathe may very well be the same air breathed by a dinosaur
Rabbit Carrot 5 years ago
Oxygen has been around for a very long time and will never run out (well not until the planet burns up via heat death due to an expanding sun). Breathable air for humans though? Probably about 50,000 years the way we’re going. We’ll be the only species to make ourselves extinct.
#21
Brocolli is man-made. It was bred out of wild cabbage by human beings. It didn't appear naturally until human beings created it
Ruth Mayfly 5 years ago
Brocolli, cabbage, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, romanesco, kale and kohl rabi have all been bred from wild cabbage.
Courtney Christelle 5 years ago
Apples use to taste gross. The sweet ones we have today came from selective breeding.
chi-wei shen 5 years ago
Brocolli, cabbage, brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, kale and cauliflower all came from a plant named brassica oleracea.
Robin DJW 5 years ago
Is it a GMO if it was created by selective breeding (as opposed with actually tinkering hands on with the genes?) If so, then almost everything we eat is GM.
Rob Chapman 5 years ago
Broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, brussels sprouts, kale & collard greens. All the exact same species. Just different cultivars.
Mascha Claessens 5 years ago
As are cauliflower and most other varieties of cabbage that we grow and consume. :-)
#22
Humans can run for longer than any other animal.
Stick Man 5 years ago
Until you're being chased. I bet you have a clip of 45 or so seconds when the adrenaline kicks in.
Load More Replies... François Carré 5 years ago
Humans have trained for generations to do that. On the other hand, no other animal would have a purpose with running 40 kilometres non-stop. It's a terrible waste of energy for nothing.
Guy MacGregor 5 years ago
This is the reason we are an Apex predator. We don't run fast, but we can run for hours (see marathon runner for exemple.). Most of animals sprints but can't stand a chase on the long run (pun intended). We just have to follow and wait for them to be exhausted. For the others, we just capture the babies and Voilà ! I am not an athletic person (I am actually a bit fat actually). But I can walk 10km a day, no problem.
Nevits Yibble 5 years ago
Why would this be downvoted? It's actually true - even today with African Kalahari hunters
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#23
Sharks have been around longer than trees have.
Marek Yanchurak 5 years ago
Idk, climbing a shark sounds kinda fun. Preferably a whale shark, but still.
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There are species of jellyfish that are thought by scientists to be immortal. The only way they can die is by disease or injury.
Courtney Christelle 5 years ago
They can revert themselves to their baby form and regrow all over again.
Cindy Crowell 5 years ago
that's a relative of jellyfish, the hydra: https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/secret-of-the-immortal-hydras-regenerating-ability-uncovered/
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tuzdayschild 5 years ago
I live in coastal Virginia, so the jellyfish that stung me may also have stung Pocahontas. (just joking, I know that jellyfish was born in 1946)
#25
Some ants can learn to farm aphids for their honey as humans farm cows for milk
Spring Fisk 5 years ago
Yes! they move the Aphids to the nicest part of the plant so the aphids will be happy and produce
#26
There are numbers below zero
Mark Johanen 5 years ago
Do most people, even children, really find the existence of negative numbers amazing and mind-blowing? Wow, wait until we start talking about fractions.
Lillukka79 5 years ago
Celsius scale and born in Finland, you learn about negative numbers since your first winter.
#27
A person gives off more heat than a person-sized piece of the sun.
Nevits Yibble 5 years ago
Uh... the sun is a big ball of gas - there are no "pieces" to it. And the temperatures vary wildly, depending on what area/depth of the sun you're referring to
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 5 years ago
Humans at rest produce approximately 100 watts. The sun has a mass of 1.989*10^30 kg and produces 3.846*10^26 watts, or about 0.0002 watts per kg. If you take an average person of about 90kg, that would be a grand total of 0.018 watts for the person size piece of sun.
#28
We will never experience tomorrow as by the time it's "tomorrow", it will be today
Mark Johanen 5 years ago
Yesterday we thought that today would be tomorrow, but now we know better.
#29
By the standards of the universe,you are both stronger and weaker than millions of things
Rabbit Carrot 5 years ago (edited)
Every point of light (about 3000 in total) in that photo is a galaxy. The photo was taken by Hubble and it only covered a patch of sky the size of a tennis ball held at arms length. Imagine how many more galaxies there are out there. Blows your mind really.
Aria Whitaker 5 years ago
And some humans actually think we are the only form of life. Looking at photos like this...that nigh seems impossible!
Load More Replies... Nia Loves Art 5 years ago
Just say stronger than millions of things, you don’t need to emphasize the weaker part. It’d be a confidence booster for the kid.
Mark Johanen 5 years ago
That one seems pretty obvious. Sorry, but I'm quibbling about how "mind blowing" a lot of these are. Obviously I'm stronger than a worm or a fly and weaker than an elephant or a tiger. I'm stronger than a trickle of water and weaker than Niagara Falls.
#30
You can't lick your elbow
Monday 5 years ago
This needs to be reworded to "most people can't lick their elbow". There are a large number of people who can.
cassiushumanmother 5 years ago
Ehlers and Danlos agree. I can lick my toes too, but what's the point?
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Julia Aviñante 5 years ago
Some people can lick their elbows. However, it's impossible to kiss your elbow, I think.
#32
Dogs don't just have a great sense of smell, they can actually smell each individual ingredient. So, a dog can't just smell that cookie you're eating, they can tell you what it's made of too. That's why police tracking dogs are so clever.
SanchaTheSeeker 5 years ago
Surely they could help contestants in Masterchef during the replication challenges
#33
Everyone was once the youngest person on earth
#34
Cats and kittens can fit their bodies almost anywhere they can squeeze their heads into, so be sure to exercise the utmost care and caution when kitten-proofing your house. Their adorable little heads can fit just about anywhere!
Jo Johannsen 5 years ago
Which is why you should NEVER trim a cat's whiskers.
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A million seconds is a little over 11 days, but a billion seconds is more than 31 years.
#36
People have less than 2 arms on average
#37
LEGO is the world’s leading tire manufacturer.
Brent Hollett 5 years ago
It is. It just doesn't make tires for human vehicles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_tire
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Poland had a bear In the military .
Monday 5 years ago
Wojtek. He wasn't just a mascot either, the bear served just like his comrades.
Fred and George Weasley 5 years ago
he was adopted or something along those lines, and the only way they could take him with them to war was if he was enrolled
#39
Sloths can't defecate off a tree, they have to climb down - but due to their slowness in eating too, they don't have to very often
#40
Animals and people with white fur and red eyes are called albinos. Albinism is a condition caused by the lack of pigmentation, resulting in extremely pale skin, white hair, and red/purple eyes. Red/purple eyes are themselves the result of seeing blood vessels in the back of the eye.
Lily Bollenbacher 5 years ago
I knew an albino girl in school. She had to wear sunglasses 24/7 because her eyelashes were transparent so her eyes were really sensitive to the sun.
#41
Your body has more bones in it than the body of an adult because your bones haven't fused together yet.
Courtney Christelle 5 years ago
As children our bodies have more bones than an adult because they haven't fused together to create your full skeleton. Your knee caps are actually cartilage when you're first born, if they were already bone we'd blow our knees out while learning how to walk.
Bonnie Jarrett 5 years ago
I think they're talking about infant babie's bones. We have more bones when we're babies because the bones haven't fused together until we're older
#42
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its whole brain
Marilyn Bojanowski 5 years ago
Which is saying a lot cause Trump's eyes hardly exist!
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Many rodents, (mice, rats, moles) front teeth are always growing...
Jo Johannsen 5 years ago
That's why your pet rodents need a diet of hard foods, to keep the teeth worn down to a safe length.
#44
Ancient Egypt was more ancient to the Romans than Ancient Rome is to us
chi-wei shen 5 years ago
The time gap between the Great Pyramid (Cheops) and Cleopatra was about 2500 years while Cleopatra died 2050 years ago.
#45
It takes 8 minutes for light from the sun to reach the earth. So when we look at the sun, we're actually seeing how it was 8 minutes ago.
Eric Von Beagleburger 5 years ago
Roger Haywood needs to be teaching our youth
Load More Replies... Nevits Yibble 5 years ago
In other words, if the sun exploded we wouldn't know it until 8 minutes later
#46
The core of the Earth is hotter than the surface of the Sun.
#47
That ants belong to a community that helps each other survive through sheer teamwork.
AzKhaleesi 5 years ago
Ny has it's own species of ant not found in any part of the world called the ManhatANT and they only live on like one street of Manhattan.
François Carré 5 years ago
And it seems that in an anthill, a significant part of the population doesn't really work or do anything, they just look busy walking around randomly. But that's OK because the community produces enough food for everyone, even the idle lazy ant asses.
#48
Spiders' webs when woven is stronger than steel.
#49
Every (if I can remember) 7 years your cells regenerate meaning every 7 years you basically have a completely different body.
#50
There's a disease know as Münchmeyer's disease, wherein the afflicted's damaged muscle tissue is 'healed' with skeleton tissue, eventually culminating in the afflicted's muscle system being converted into a secondary skeletal system, hence it's a common name, second skeleton disease. It's completely incurable and largely untreatable. & since it symptoms usually don't appear until the age of 10, you could have it & we wouldn't know for another 5 years.
Thanks to a couple of quantum mechanical things that most adults would have problems comprehending, let alone a 5-year-old, it's entirely possible for what's know as a 'hard vacuum' (a place where no matter can exist) to spontaneously form anywhere in the universe. Once formed, it would propagate at lightspeed until it destroyed all matter in the universe
Courtney Christelle 5 years ago
People who have it have to be very careful to not bump into things or get injured.
Monday 5 years ago
One of the hardest things for me to wrap my head around is they have to choose (at some point in their lives) how they want to be frozen. .. Do they choose to be perpetually sitting or standing?
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#51
Octopus have part of their brain all over their body!
Rabbit Carrot 5 years ago
They have a cluster of nerves in each tentacle (like a tiny brain), they can control each tentacle independently or all together.
#52
There is a number so big you can't even use the entire universe worth of atoms to write it.
#53
Snails can have up to 25000 teeth
#54
A lot of dinosaurs had feathers, and birds are descended from dinosaurs. Because hair and feathers break down much more easily than bones, it's possible many dinosaurs had fur/feathers, but because all that remains of them are bones, archaeologists can only speculate what they looked like. There's a very interesting post talking about this somewhere on the internet, I recommend looking it up. According to that post, our modern conception and depictions of dinosaurs is like if scientists in the future tried to recreate the dogs and cats of today based solely on their bones, without any fur.
Rob Chapman 5 years ago
Slight correction. Bipedal Saurischian dinosaurs, especially theropods (under which birds are categorized) had feathers. This would include well known species such as the T-Rex and velociraptor, And most related species. Whilst quadrupedal Ornithischian dinosaurs,such as stegosurus, and aykylosaurus, did not.
sivanphoenix 5 years ago
https://www.boredpanda.com/skull-how-aliens-would-reconstruct-animal-meme/
Jenn C 5 years ago
They have found a dinosaur fossil recently with the imprint of feathers preserved. Some have also been found preserved in amber. https://www.google.com/amp/s/api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/news/2016/12/feathered-dinosaur-tail-amber-theropod-myanmar-burma-cretaceous
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Bats never leave their young behind. They climb on the mother when finding a new place to roost.
#56
Flies only sleep 75 minutes a day.
#57
Some pigeons can make a whistle with their feathers that can alert an entire flock that there’s danger. What’s more is that there’s a specific sound and amplitude and tone to it, it’s not random
#58
You can't come up with a new color
Courtney Christelle 5 years ago
Just cause you give it a new name doesn't make it a new colour.
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Jess-a-men 5 years ago
Technically, magenta doesn't exist (it doesn't have a wavelenght) so our brains did come up with a new color at least once.
Mark Johanen 5 years ago
Well, it depends how you mean that. If you think of color in terms of, say, the red/green/blue color model, then every color is a mixture of varying percentages of red, green, and blue. So yeah, someone has thought of 70% red and 30% green. But I could invent a shade no one has ever seen before if I had enough decimal places Like what about 69.12345678% red and 30.87654322% green? Has anyone seen that particular shade?
Colin Allcars 5 years ago
I think they were referring to actual colors, not shades.
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Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backward
#60
Elephants cannot jump.
Courtney Christelle 5 years ago (edited)
They're also the only mammal who's joints (knees, elbows) all bend in the same direction. And male elephants can use their penis as an extra leg to hold their weight.
hobbitly 5 years ago
No they bend like every other but not all mammals walk te same. For example dogs walk on their fingers and horses walk on their nails. But if you look at all those skeletons, they have similar bones. Same for the elephant.
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#61
Queen bees are created by bee larvae being fed royal jelly.
Eric Von Beagleburger 5 years ago
I don't know why, but I immediately thought of the "death by snoo snoo" episode (I'm not normal)
Load More Replies... Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 5 years ago
This is not quite accurate. Rather the food given to other bees suppresses development. Royal jelly has no special benefit.
#62
Polar bears don't really have white fur. Their fur is actually translucent, but due to the way it reflects light, it appears white. (This may or may not be true of all white-furred/white-haired mammals, I'm not sure.)
#63
Flamingos get their pink colour from shrimp they eat
Lillukka79 5 years ago
Coöumbus brought few of them to queen Isabella. She was not impressed with the grayish birds she got.
#64
There are bugs that poop on your eyebrow
Rabbit Carrot 5 years ago (edited)
On your eyelashes too. There are three mite species that live on your face.
#65
Starfish actually walk along the ocean floor, so slow you can't see it, and they have no brains.
#66
There are more possible games of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe
Courtney Christelle 5 years ago
I taught my son how to play chess when he was 5... Kid kicks my a*s now.
#67
Thunder is the sound of lightning but because the light is faster than the sound they take place at separate times
Roger Haywood 5 years ago
Not strictly true. You can't hear lightning. The sound is the air coming together where the lightning has just been.
Courtney Christelle 5 years ago
Lightning creates a hole in the atmosphere and the thunder is the sound of the air rushing in to fill the hole and smacking into each other.
#68
The reason your veins look blue but blood is red is because it's harder for red light waves to travel through solid objects than blue/purple waves. (Optional: that's why you can wear a red bra under a white shirt and you can't see it.)
ge pa 5 years ago
thats why the nobles call them blue bloods. in the middleages the clean skin looks than they have blue bloob
E Menendez 5 years ago
It had more to do with the lack of color and how pale they were as royalty never had to go outside to labor like the peasants. This allowed much more visibility. Nobody bathed back then, not even royalty.
Load More Replies... Eric Von Beagleburger 5 years ago
I'll keep that in mind as a hetero male that isn't into cross dressing...
Courtney Christelle 5 years ago
You never know, you might impress a chick with that info.
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The weight of all the ants in the world is greater than the weight off all the humans in the world.
cheetahmaster07 5 years ago
This was true about 100-50 years ago( i don't know the exact date) but now because human population has grown so much we actually weigh more.
#70
There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on Earth
#72
Horses can't puke.
#73
Sea turtles live 200 years.
#74
Every E in “Mercedes” is pronounced differently
#75
Mammals have a turning point in sleep patterns. Smaller mammals sleep longer and it gets shorter up until about the size of a black bear, then it starts to get longer again.
#76
One day you will struggle to remember this entire year.
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago (edited)
I'm losing my short term memory. I can remember 20 years ago better than last week. I blame the raves I went to.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
They won't let us. There'll be books, documentaries, films and podcasts about 2020 for the next 15 years to come.
Courtney Christelle 5 years ago
I already struggle to remember the last 30 but something tells me I won't be forgetting this year.
#77
Sharks can sense the location of other creatures via their muscle movement
Lily Bollenbacher 5 years ago
Some sharks also can’t ever stop swimming because otherwise they can’t get water through their gills and they’ll suffocate
#78
The human head weighs 8 pounds.
Mark Johanen 5 years ago
We should verify this by cutting off people's heads and weighing them.
#79
You can fit all the planets tip to tip in the distance between the earth and the moon
Nevits Yibble 5 years ago
And their actual distances apart are quite staggering (relatively speaking of course)
#80
Tigers are cats. Domestic House cats are cousins of the tiger. Also, hyenas are more closely related to cats than dogs.
#81
The largest lake in South America is lake Titicaca
Mme de Poppadom 5 years ago
Re-read the topic: amazing to a 5 year old. You must be 6.
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#82
Many common household plants and flowers are poisonous, such as hosta, buttercups, azalea, etc.
tuzdayschild 5 years ago
I don't know why but the fact that buttercups are poisonous makes me sad.
Courtney Christelle 5 years ago
The website just told me I'm posting comments too quickly and to slow down... Never.
#83
Lizards can make their tail fall off, and if they lose their tail, it will regrow.
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