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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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.
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."
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.
Sea otters hold hands when they sleep and have a favorite rock to hold onto in a secret pouch.
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."
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."
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
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.
Cows have "best friends" and get stressed when separated.
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 :'(
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.
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.
This was not World War 1 but the war between Austria , Prussia, and Italy in 1866.
Most elephants weigh less than a blue whale’s tongue!
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.
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'
Scotland’s national animal is a unicorn.
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.
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.
Adwaita, a giant tortoise who died in 2006, was born before the United States existed in 1750.
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.
When a cat walks towards you with its tail up that means it likes you and is excited to see you.
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.
There were wooly mammoths on the planet when the Pyramids were being built.
Bees tell their friends about good nearby flowers by dancing.
Before 1914 parents could mail their kids to Grandma’s – through the postal service.
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.
Food taboos are an odd thing. In Western countries, most people are disgusted by the thought of eating insects yet devour prawn. Rather odd...
I've eaten crickets, grasshoppers, ants, grubs and moths. The grubs were fairly big, but the rest of the insects are too small to really be worth the effort. I'd have to say the most disgusting thing I've ever eaten was grizzly bear. It doesn't matter how you cook it, it tastes like a sweaty armpit.
Load More Replies...Somehow i get the feeling the prisoners did not get warm butter or properly cooked lobster though.
Sounds more like the name of a pirate themed rock band, "Roaches of the Sea" or "Roaches of the Seven Seas".
Load More Replies...Another fun fact: Snooki won't eat lobsters "Because they're alive when you kill it."
Send yours my way. You can go back to the sweaty armpits.
Load More Replies...Oysters had the same thing before they all got poisoned by sewage, dredged up, or eaten.
best sea roaches I have ever had! sound disgusting when you phrase it like that...lol
Well, don't phrase it like that, then. Because it is simply wrong. Unless you refer to your human friends as frogs.
Load More Replies...I don't really see the direct comparison to roaches. They're all arthropods, yeah, but that's a pretty vast phylum.
I think it's because they eat other animals poo and rubbish from the bottom of the ocean.
Load More Replies...You have to boil the alive, because if they are dead for two long, they become poisonous and you can no longer eat them.
Load More Replies...Reminds me of the lobster scenes in "Mystic Pizza": "F*****g lotsa lobsters here."
OMG, Mystic Pizza is such a blast from the past!
Load More Replies...We love huitlacoche in Mexico, and it is pretty much a fungal infection that naturally occurs to the corn. In many countries people burn down those "infected" crops, but man, huitlacoche it's just so tasty!
I knew this and told my husband it’s too bad I wasn’t a prisoner. I’d loved that.
Looks like bored panda posted my comment in multiple places at once!!
Yet apparently putting someone in isolation for years on end isn't considered a cruel and unusual punishment.
In the ocean, it's as if everything that was microscopic-sized on land is like six inches long. So bugs are about the size of a lobster.
I learned this long ago and haven't been able to stomach lobster or crab or any shellfish.
"Lobsters are considered disgusting..." And yet, they sell for $30 a TAIL at a restaurant...
Sorry, but comparing lobsters to any type of insect this is simply wrong on so many levels. While it’s true that both roaches and lobsters are part of the PHYLUM Arthropoda (a phylum is the second largest division of living things, with kingdom, as in “animal kingdom” being the largest), they are not even in the same Class (the third-largest division). Lobsters are in the Class Crustacea, while roaches are in the Class Insecta. We humans are in the Phylum Cordata, and the Class Mammalia. So, saying that lobsters are just big roaches is as true as saying that humans are just large frogs with opposable thumbs. One probably shouldn't amuse one's child with misinformation.
And did you know that salmon was so common in Netherlands that it was prohidited to give to servants as food more than five times in a week? Later it changed to three times.
Me next time at a restaurant watching someone eating a lobster " you know that's a sea roach right?" 😂🤣😂
And now its expensive af ..especially in my country, we are too far from sea and its hard to buy fresh sea food :( only frozen and its yuck
I knew this. Also, tourists would ask what they were, so the locals told them they were a delicacy. Thus was born the taste for lobster.
Somewhat complete. As lobster was inexpensive it could be canned cheaply and sent around the country where a cheap food was welcome, and where they were unaware of it's status on the east coast. It became popular and around mid 1800's, as people traveled more, those who traveled to the east coast already had an appetite for it and requested it fresh in the east coast in restaurants. It was not rationed during WWII so the popularity grew even more. Even in the 50's lobster was considered food of the poor in wast coast fishing towns.
Load More Replies...Same for salmon. Workers had it written into their contracts that they would not be fed salmon every day.
ever think that bottom feeders eat carrion that includes babies that were drowned by their parents. that is why killers would wrap their victims in chicken wire. the body wouldn't float to surface and the creatures could still feed.
The frequency of a cat's purr has been shown to improve bone density and strength.
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.
At birth, a baby panda is smaller than a mouse.
There's an island in Japan populated by fluffy bunnies!!
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.
There is a bank in Italy that trades entirely in parmesan cheese.
The pyramids were ancient when Cleopatra was around.
There is actually a bigger time gap between the first pyramids and Cleopatra than between Cleopatra and today.
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.
Apples float but pears sink. Apples float because they are 25% air.
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!
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.
Mandarin for zebra translates as ribbon horse. Similarly, giraffes are long-necked deer, and pandas are big bear cats.
Pineapples used to be so expensive that people would rent them as a centerpiece for their party.
You can always see your own nose, but your brain learns to filter it out.
There are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than there are stars in our galaxy.
52!=80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000
Some penguins propose to mates by bringing them rocks for a nest.
It snows metal on planet Venus.
Kangaroos will often lead predators to water, then continuously jump on and off of their heads to drown them to death.
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.
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.
France was still using the Guillotine when Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope came out.
A group of ferrets is called a business.
Babies are born without kneecaps.
When they're approximately 3 years old, the soft cartilage of the kneecap will turn into bone
Disney World is the second largest buyer and importer of explosives in the USA.
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.
New Zealand has an official wizard.
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.
The worlds smallest bat is the size of a bumblebee.
How would you hit a ball with it? It must be tiny and who would be able to use such a bat?
If you live in the USA, you have better odds of dating Taylor Swift than dying of Ebola or Bird Flu combined.
I didn't expect to see a comparison of dating Taylor Swift and dying of Ebola or Bird Flu.
Elephants are usually right or left tusked, the same way humans are right or left-handed.
You can tell which one by looking at the tusks. The one they prefer will have a mark on the preferred tusk
Male seahorses carry the baby in their tummy instead of the mommy.
You are physically able to bite your own thumb off with ease, but your body automatically prevents you from using full force.
The building in the world with the most toilets is Wembley Stadium.
a platypus lays eggs and has milk. making it the only mammal that could, in theory, make its own custard.
A single bat can eat half of their body weight, or up to 1,000 mosquitoes, a night.
Calls to plumbers double the day after Thanksgiving.
For toilet clogs, or people pouring grease down the kitchen drain?
Cocoa was called cacauhatl in Aztec language meaning water of life. Same as Irish Gaelic word uisce beatha, but they meant whisky.
In France, it's still illegal to call your pig 'Napoleon'
The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters.
Fish can drown.
This happens because of the lack of oxygen in the water sometimes. They breathe the oxygen in H2O, they don't breathe water
Jellyfish and lobsters are immortal unless outside forces intervene.
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..
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.
Worms have 5 hearts.
About 1 million people die from mosquito bites every year. That’s about 100 per hour.
They played golf on the moon one time.
J K Rowling is richer than the Queen.
Messages from the human brain travel along nerves at up to 200 miles an hour (322 km/h).
For an adult human, taking just one step uses up to 200 muscles.
Betty White is older than sliced bread.
Yeah, but "That's the best thing since Betty White" doesn't sound very good, does it?
Ultramarathon runner Dean Karnazes once ran 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days
And pulled 50 muscles and had to visit 50 hospitals because he was so exhausted.
The red food-coloring (carmine) that's used in a lot of candy is made up of a kind of beetle.
Making pennies cost more than their actual value.
The same holds true for the Euro cent. Thats why some countries already stopped using the 1 and 2 cent coins.
Koalas sleep 22 hours a day.
If a human being’s DNA were uncoiled, it would stretch 10 billion miles, from Earth to Pluto and back.
I haven't quite worked it out, but I know we can somehow use this to travel to Pluto.
Pigs can get a sunburn.
that also goes for relally light colored horses like perlino or albino
A teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh 10 million tons on earth.
Slugs have four noses.
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.
A woodpecker can peck 20 times per second
I have 3 different kinds in my yard that come to my bird feeder, all quite beautiful.
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.
Sharks don't blink.
seems logic to me, sharks are like fishes and fishes don't blink either
The average american eats approx 35,000 cookies in his/her life.
You are closer to death now than you have ever been.
One time a guy ate an aeroplane. It took him several years but he did it.
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.
If a flea was that large it wouldn't be able to take in enough oxygen to facilitate the jump in the first place
John Quincy Adams had a pet alligator that he kept in a White House bathroom.
Harry Potter was the first children book series to make the NY Best Sellers List since Charlotte's Web in 1952.
I hadn't realised Charlotte's Web was such an old book. I think it was the first sad book I ever read.
A person’s sneeze can travel at speeds of about 100 miles per hour!
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...The best is that there are ALSO cute animals here!!! :)
Load More Replies...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.
But they become accurate with the help of all us pandas :D
Load More Replies...The caffeine in the coffee bean is actually a poison to prevent animals from eating the plant. So when you drink that cup of coffee tomorrow, just know you've been poisoning yourself just a bit everyday.
And yet, regular coffee drinkers have much lower rates of Alzheimers, pancreatic cancer, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease than people who don't drink it.
Load More Replies...There are only 2 words in English where all 5 vowels appear in alphabetical order. Facetious & Abstemious.
Knew the first, but not the second. Cool!
Load More Replies...Few guys from Norway with one from Sweden sailed from Peru to Polynesia on balsa raft to prove that it is possible. The journey is about 5000 km long and it took them about 100 days, which means that they were going more or less 2 km per hour. That is one third of speed of walk.
Polar bears have black skin and although their fur appears white, it is actually transparent.
I have in I learned my social studies teacher: in Japan there is a place that’s sky is so polluted that u can’t see then sunrise or sunset; and he said that when humans haven’t seen the sunrise or sunset for a certain period of time, then depression starts to kick in, so they have a giant screen that shows the sunrise and sunset when it would happen for people going to and leaving work.
Mary, Queen of Scots, had a croquet mallet made from the horn of a Narwhal. I KNEW that would come in handy someday!
Here's another: in 2019 (21st century) there are still people who believe the earth is flat! :O
My fondness for trivia took me very close to becoming a millionaire on the first season of the American version WWtBaM? Look up my name on YouTube and you can watch.
Yeah, it's much better to just spread misinformation. Idiot.
Load More Replies...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...The best is that there are ALSO cute animals here!!! :)
Load More Replies...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.
But they become accurate with the help of all us pandas :D
Load More Replies...The caffeine in the coffee bean is actually a poison to prevent animals from eating the plant. So when you drink that cup of coffee tomorrow, just know you've been poisoning yourself just a bit everyday.
And yet, regular coffee drinkers have much lower rates of Alzheimers, pancreatic cancer, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease than people who don't drink it.
Load More Replies...There are only 2 words in English where all 5 vowels appear in alphabetical order. Facetious & Abstemious.
Knew the first, but not the second. Cool!
Load More Replies...Few guys from Norway with one from Sweden sailed from Peru to Polynesia on balsa raft to prove that it is possible. The journey is about 5000 km long and it took them about 100 days, which means that they were going more or less 2 km per hour. That is one third of speed of walk.
Polar bears have black skin and although their fur appears white, it is actually transparent.
I have in I learned my social studies teacher: in Japan there is a place that’s sky is so polluted that u can’t see then sunrise or sunset; and he said that when humans haven’t seen the sunrise or sunset for a certain period of time, then depression starts to kick in, so they have a giant screen that shows the sunrise and sunset when it would happen for people going to and leaving work.
Mary, Queen of Scots, had a croquet mallet made from the horn of a Narwhal. I KNEW that would come in handy someday!
Here's another: in 2019 (21st century) there are still people who believe the earth is flat! :O
My fondness for trivia took me very close to becoming a millionaire on the first season of the American version WWtBaM? Look up my name on YouTube and you can watch.
Yeah, it's much better to just spread misinformation. Idiot.
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