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.
I always wondered why my cats knew to be at the door at the exact same time every day
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I just read about that, how your scent diminishes and it helps them "time" your length awaaaaaaaaah....I am crying now. *runs to hug dog*
As a child, my dog used to watch from the window 5 minutes before I got home. My mother knew I was on my way. One day, the school boiler broke down, and we were sent home early. The dog got to the window 5 minutes before I arrived, and we just can't explain that one. When the dog got to the window, I was still in school, so there were no noises she could have heard.
They just KNOW when you are coming up the walk! Horses too--my guys come running in from the field and are at the gate before I get to the driveway!
Where do you live that you’re able to keep horses?
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When I had a dog, I would be away for different lengths of time each day, sometimes 6 hours, sometimes 10 or 12 (I had a landlady who would let the dog out if I was working my two jobs that day) and I lived in a basement apartment, my mom was visiting and she said the dog ran to the door and after the dog ran to the door my mom heard my car door close, so I wonder if there’s more to it than that?
I used to ride the bus and my roommate told me when it got close to time for me to come home, my dogs would get excited every time a bus went by thinking I was on it.
Our dogs didn't take notice all day of the busses coming past. They only started their happy dance for the 4 oçlock one by which the children came home.
When my husband worked the same hours every day, our dog went to the door and started whining when he was supposed to get home. She got really loud if he was late, but could sometimes be calmed if I explained that he was just picking up some groceries on his way home. Sometimes.
Interesting. I always thought it had to do with hearing your car, or footsteps long before humans can.
I read something somewhere that most animals know about a half-hour before you arrive that you’re on your way home, and now we know how that happens! 😁💋👏🏽
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actually it's more complex. animals such as cats or dogs cab hear you walking way before you walk into your houses. My pets know when I am getting home 4-5 minutes before I walk through the door and sometimes I am away for more than 7 days.
Before my husband retired, our dog would disappear around the same time everyday. He’d sit in the front window knowing when my husband would be home.
Our dog knows when my hubs is coming down the STREET way before he gets into the driveway.
Nah. I think most animals have greater ESP abilities than we do. You can easily test this yourself. Start by making eye contact for a second with your dog while visualizing something he/she loves. Watch his/her reaction. If they're extra good at it you can silently call them from afar by visualizing giving them their favorite treat. Not every animal will connect with you in this way, but when one does it will blow your mind.
I was once in the middle of a project when my very brainy cat came over for some pets, so I told him to please give me 20 more minutes to finish, and sure enough he came back 20 minutes later, although I still wasn’t done. My bad...
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Then my dog is dumb. I know her sniffer is accurate. She can smell a piece of cheese from a mile away.
I don't understand. Like they know how much smell you leave when on a usual workday and are able to distinguish it from what you do (and how much smell you leave) when you're going on a holiday for example?
Scent dissipates with time, so if you are gone for 10 hours each day then the dog will learn how much scent usually is left when you return. Kind of like an hourglass but will scent instead of sand ; )
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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.
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.
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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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The best is that there are ALSO cute animals here!!! :)
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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
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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.
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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!
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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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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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