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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses
One father started telling his daughter very random yet very interesting facts before bedtime but her curiosity has outlasted his knowledge. So, desperate to keep his little one entertained, Redditor u/ExpiringFrog asked people to share tidbits of interesting things that could do the trick. His post quickly went viral, generating nearly 100k upvotes and over 20.5k comments, with cool facts about pretty much everything you could think of. From guinea pig owning laws in Switzerland to the time it takes a snowflake to reach the ground, I think it's safe to say that the father is covered with fun facts for kids and adults alike! The best part, however, is that you can enjoy these snippets even if you're not a little girl trying to fall asleep.
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#1
Some species of burrowing spiders keep teeny tiny frogs in their burrows to keep it free of bugs too small for the spider to get that might try to eat the spider's eggs. This means that tiny frogs are spider cats.
You might say collecting weird facts don't really translate into anything useful. However, experts believe that playing trivia games can provide a dopamine rush much like gambling, just without the negative effects. And scrolling through posts filled with things to know might just prepare you for these competitions.
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#2
Maybe not mind-blowing, but sometimes dogs/wolves in movies need CGI tails if they’re supposed to be acting mean bc they’re so excited to be doing a good job acting that their tails can’t stop wagging.
"You get a rush or a neuroreward signal or a dopamine burst from winning," John Kounios, Ph.D., professor of psychology and director of the doctoral program in applied cognitive and brain sciences at Drexel University in Pennsylvania, told Healthline. "I think whenever you’re challenged with a trivia question and you happen to know the random fact, you get a rush. It's sort of like gambling."
#3
In Switzerland, it's illegal to own just one guinea pig; if you have any, you have to have at least two. They get lonely!
Also, remembering these little pears of wisdom is easier if you're really passionate about the subject matter. "People really like to have some expertise on something and the brain is very good at focusing on things that you’re interested in," Deborah Stokes, Ph.D., L.P.C., B.C.N., a psychologist in Virginia, who focuses on neurotherapy, said.
#4
Sea otters hold hands when they sleep and have a favorite rock to hold onto in a secret pouch.
Silverfish_13 6 years ago
Yeah, it's so cute! they do this so they don't float away from eachother
"In typical people, my observation, not backed up by any research, is that their interest in trivia is confined to topics that they are generally interested in," Kounios added. "So if a person is very interested in history, then they may either seek out history trivia, or they might just naturally pick it up in the course of learning about nontrivial aspects of history."
#5
Oxford University in England is older than the Aztec empire.
But being a killer at trivia games doesn't necessarily mean you're more educated. "Some people soak up facts," the professor said. "Plenty of people with a lot more education may not remember what they had for breakfast yesterday morning."
#7
Dogs can tell when you're coming home by how much of your scent is left in the house if you have a daily routine
Lenka Smetanová 6 years ago
cat can do it too... actually, when I still travel to schol by train,she Even start waking me up just a few minutes before my phone start to ring, also know, that on Tuesday I traveled the later rain because I start at schol by noon, and also know in which train that dayI would came back and waiting at the window to see me walking home.
#8
Cows have "best friends" and get stressed when separated.
Lenka Smetanová 6 years ago
I have a mare. She never have 'best' friend, but in the last stable, there was another mare, Angelika. My Sarah and Anelika become really good friend, Angelika always waiting for Sarah at the ener to pasture when I took her away to work or for a walk etc. ... Unfortunately, Angelika died this Febuary, she propably fell and broke her neck... My Sarah was so sad for several days, she start weaving at the pasture and after that she dont found another horse friend like Angelika :'(
#9
Humans are bioluminescent and glow in the dark, but the light that we emit is 1,000 times weaker than our human eyes are able to pick up.
#10
The Lichtenstein army went to battle in 1866, during the Austro-Prussian War with 80 soldiers and came back with 81. They befriended an Austria man along the way and he joined them.
chi-wei shen 6 years ago
This was not World War 1 but the war between Austria , Prussia, and Italy in 1866.
#11
Most elephants weigh less than a blue whale’s tongue!
#13
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.
#14
The name for the Arctic comes from the ancient Greek word for bear - arktos. Named after one of the constellations Ursa Major (Big Bear) or Ursa Minor (Little Bear), but there are bears living there too. So basically, the Arctic is called 'Bear', and the Antarctic is called 'Not Bear'
#15
Scotland’s national animal is a unicorn.
#17
If you choose to not have children, you’re the first person in your direct line of ancestry to make this choice since the first organism to exist on Earth, about 4 billion years ago.
#18
From the time Pluto was discovered until the time it was demoted from planethood, it still hadn't made one complete revolution around the sun.
#19
Adwaita, a giant tortoise who died in 2006, was born before the United States existed in 1750.
#20
When a bee is chosen to be the new queen, they are given a special type of honey that completely changes their bodies. Kind of like how a Pokémon evolves.
#21
When a cat walks towards you with its tail up that means it likes you and is excited to see you.
#22
A day on Venus takes longer to complete Than a year on Venus.. how? It simply takes longer for Venus to do one complete rotation around its own axis, than it does for the planet to rotate around the sun.
#25
Before 1914 parents could mail their kids to Grandma’s – through the postal service.
#26
Lobsters were considered disgusting and low-class food, to the point that feeding them to prisoners too often was considered cruel and unusual punishment. Also, they're basically just big sea roaches.
#27
The frequency of a cat's purr has been shown to improve bone density and strength.
Pamela24 6 years ago
Cat's purr heals everything around it. It's one of my favourite sounds in the world, especially if you put your ear right on the cat's head. (Even worth the scratch that sometimes follows.) I know that sick/injured cats purr to heal themselves so it definitely must be true.
#29
Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren't
#30
At birth, a baby panda is smaller than a mouse.
#31
There's an island in Japan populated by fluffy bunnies!!
#32
The Moon’s diameter is 400 times smaller than the Sun’s. However, the Sun is 400 times further away. This is why we can have both solar and lunar total eclipses.
#34
The pyramids were ancient when Cleopatra was around.
chi-wei shen 6 years ago
There is actually a bigger time gap between the first pyramids and Cleopatra than between Cleopatra and today.
#38
Kangaroos can’t walk backwards.
#39
Otters have skin pockets for their favorite rocks.
#40
There is the term „rubberducking“ which is used by programmers to help them find mistakes. They explain their problem to a rubber duck and by doing so often find a solution.
#42
Apples float but pears sink. Apples float because they are 25% air.
Phil Boswell 6 years ago
Sometimes this is the only way you can tell if a particular fruit is a pear or an apple: there are some varieties of each that look just like the other!
#43
A Siamese cats fur color is dependent on its body temperature. That’s why the colder areas of the body such as the nose, paws, and tail are darker than the rest.
#44
Mandarin for zebra translates as ribbon horse. Similarly, giraffes are long-necked deer, and pandas are big bear cats.
#45
Pineapples used to be so expensive that people would rent them as a centerpiece for their party.
#46
You can always see your own nose, but your brain learns to filter it out.
#47
the word "bed" actually looks like a bed.
#49
There are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than there are stars in our galaxy.
chi-wei shen 6 years ago
52!=80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000
#51
It snows metal on planet Venus.
#52
Kangaroos will often lead predators to water, then continuously jump on and off of their heads to drown them to death.
Luis Milian 6 years ago
all you have to do is walk backwards, they will be so disappointed that they can do it themselves that they will leave you alone.
#53
If today, you took off in a rocket that travels at 99% the speed of light and spent 10 years travelling in space at that same speed, when you get back to earth it would be the year 2048. 10 years would have passed for you but the earth would have experienced 29 years. You just effectively time travelled 19 years into the future.
#54
France was still using the Guillotine when Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope came out.
#55
A group of ferrets is called a business.
#57
Babies are born without kneecaps.
SanchaTheSeeker 6 years ago
When they're approximately 3 years old, the soft cartilage of the kneecap will turn into bone
#58
Disney World is the second largest buyer and importer of explosives in the USA.
#60
It took humanity 4 times longer to switch from copper swords to steel swords than it took us to switch from steel swords to nuclear bombs.
#61
New Zealand has an official wizard.
#62
Rabbits usually sleep during the day, but they often sleep with their eyes open so you can’t tell. If you look closely, sleeping bunnies don’t twitch their noses.
#63
The worlds smallest bat is the size of a bumblebee.
Unwelcomed Guest 6 years ago
How would you hit a ball with it? It must be tiny and who would be able to use such a bat?
#64
If you live in the USA, you have better odds of dating Taylor Swift than dying of Ebola or Bird Flu combined.
chi-wei shen 6 years ago
I didn't expect to see a comparison of dating Taylor Swift and dying of Ebola or Bird Flu.
#65
Whales are closer to cows than to sharks.
#67
Rainbows are circles.
#68
Elephants are usually right or left tusked, the same way humans are right or left-handed.
Ronel du Plessis 6 years ago
You can tell which one by looking at the tusks. The one they prefer will have a mark on the preferred tusk
#69
Male seahorses carry the baby in their tummy instead of the mommy.
#71
You are physically able to bite your own thumb off with ease, but your body automatically prevents you from using full force.
#73
The building in the world with the most toilets is Wembley Stadium.
#74
a platypus lays eggs and has milk. making it the only mammal that could, in theory, make its own custard.
#75
A single bat can eat half of their body weight, or up to 1,000 mosquitoes, a night.
#76
Calls to plumbers double the day after Thanksgiving.
Frozengeckolover 6 years ago
For toilet clogs, or people pouring grease down the kitchen drain?
#77
Cocoa was called cacauhatl in Aztec language meaning water of life. Same as Irish Gaelic word uisce beatha, but they meant whisky.
#78
In France, it's still illegal to call your pig 'Napoleon'
#79
The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters.
#80
Fish can drown.
Silverfish_13 6 years ago
This happens because of the lack of oxygen in the water sometimes. They breathe the oxygen in H2O, they don't breathe water
#82
Jellyfish and lobsters are immortal unless outside forces intervene.
The Cute Cat 6 years ago
This has been debunked.. Lobster still have a limit of changing their outer skeleton (or skin). When the skin changing is no longer suit their larger body, then they will die..
#85
A human’s ears and nose never stop growing.
#86
Male lions sleep 23 of the 24 hours in a day.
#87
A photon takes 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to the surface of the sun. But it takes just eight minutes to travel from there to the earth.
#88
Worms have 5 hearts.
#89
About 1 million people die from mosquito bites every year. That’s about 100 per hour.
#90
They played golf on the moon one time.
#92
J K Rowling is richer than the Queen.
#93
Messages from the human brain travel along nerves at up to 200 miles an hour (322 km/h).
#94
For an adult human, taking just one step uses up to 200 muscles.
#95
Betty White is older than sliced bread.
João Ferreira 6 years ago
Yeah, but "That's the best thing since Betty White" doesn't sound very good, does it?
#96
Ultramarathon runner Dean Karnazes once ran 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days
Neon Petra 6 years ago
And pulled 50 muscles and had to visit 50 hospitals because he was so exhausted.
#97
The red food-coloring (carmine) that's used in a lot of candy is made up of a kind of beetle.
#99
Making pennies cost more than their actual value.
chi-wei shen 6 years ago
The same holds true for the Euro cent. Thats why some countries already stopped using the 1 and 2 cent coins.
#100
Koalas sleep 22 hours a day.
#101
If a human being’s DNA were uncoiled, it would stretch 10 billion miles, from Earth to Pluto and back.
tuzdayschild 6 years ago
I haven't quite worked it out, but I know we can somehow use this to travel to Pluto.
#102
Snails have the most teeth of any animal.
#105
Pigs can get a sunburn.
Lenka Smetanová 6 years ago
that also goes for relally light colored horses like perlino or albino
#108
Slugs have four noses.
Jonathon Smith 6 years ago
Slugs also have shells! I once brought my boss a strange shell and asked him what it was. When he said a slug shell I thought he was joking, but he got a book out and showed me a diagram! They are tiny, oval and usually invisible on the slugs tail. It is how scientists know slugs evolved from snails and not the other way around.
#109
A woodpecker can peck 20 times per second
Crochet lady 6 years ago
I have 3 different kinds in my yard that come to my bird feeder, all quite beautiful.
#113
Bullfrogs never sleep.
#114
One of the founders of this coffee empire was a fan of the book Moby Dick, and wanted to name the company after the stories’ fabled ship Pequod, but they settled instead on naming the company after the ships first mate, Starbuck.
#115
Sharks don't blink.
Ale_Vidal23 6 years ago
seems logic to me, sharks are like fishes and fishes don't blink either
#118
The average american eats approx 35,000 cookies in his/her life.
#119
You are closer to death now than you have ever been.
#121
One time a guy ate an aeroplane. It took him several years but he did it.
#122
Fleas can jump around 130times their own height. So if a flea were a person six feet high, it can jump 780 feet high just like that.
Unwelcomed Guest 6 years ago
If a flea was that large it wouldn't be able to take in enough oxygen to facilitate the jump in the first place
#123
John Quincy Adams had a pet alligator that he kept in a White House bathroom.
#124
Harry Potter was the first children book series to make the NY Best Sellers List since Charlotte's Web in 1952.
Jonathon Smith 6 years ago
I hadn't realised Charlotte's Web was such an old book. I think it was the first sad book I ever read.
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Marianne Contrino 6 years ago
Yes, that's one of my favorite facts to share. Tyler had a son when he was in his 70's, and his son had two sons in his late 60's-70, I believe.
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Miss Cris 6 years ago
The best is that there are ALSO cute animals here!!! :)
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Nicky OldfieldDesciple 6 years ago (edited)
Here are some more.😊💖 A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. A shrimp's heart is in its head. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is believed to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. If you sneeze too hard, you could fracture a rib. Wearing headphones for just an hour could increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. In the course of an average lifetime, while sleeping you might eat around 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders, or more. Some lipsticks contain fish scales. Cat urine glows under a black-light. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing (when using the proper position of the hands on the keyboard; Hunting and pecking doesn't count!). A shark is the only known fish that can blink with both eyes. The longest one-syllable words in the English language are "scraunched" and "strengthed." Some suggest that "squirreled" could be included, but squirrel is intended to be pronounced as two syllables (squir-rel) according to most dictionaries. "Screeched" and "strengths" are two other long one-syllable words, but they only have 9 letters. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". Underground is the only word in the English language to begin and end with the letters UND. Fashion and Cushion are the only words in the English Language to end in SHION. Almonds are a member of the peach family. Maine is the only state that has a one-syllable name. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. In many advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life." A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. Most people fall asleep in seven minutes. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
Marianne Contrino 6 years ago
Yes, that's one of my favorite facts to share. Tyler had a son when he was in his 70's, and his son had two sons in his late 60's-70, I believe.
Load More Replies... Miss Cris 6 years ago
The best is that there are ALSO cute animals here!!! :)
Load More Replies... Nicky OldfieldDesciple 6 years ago (edited)
Here are some more.😊💖 A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. A shrimp's heart is in its head. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is believed to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. If you sneeze too hard, you could fracture a rib. Wearing headphones for just an hour could increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. In the course of an average lifetime, while sleeping you might eat around 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders, or more. Some lipsticks contain fish scales. Cat urine glows under a black-light. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing (when using the proper position of the hands on the keyboard; Hunting and pecking doesn't count!). A shark is the only known fish that can blink with both eyes. The longest one-syllable words in the English language are "scraunched" and "strengthed." Some suggest that "squirreled" could be included, but squirrel is intended to be pronounced as two syllables (squir-rel) according to most dictionaries. "Screeched" and "strengths" are two other long one-syllable words, but they only have 9 letters. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". Underground is the only word in the English language to begin and end with the letters UND. Fashion and Cushion are the only words in the English Language to end in SHION. Almonds are a member of the peach family. Maine is the only state that has a one-syllable name. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. In many advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life." A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. Most people fall asleep in seven minutes. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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