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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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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses 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.

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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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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses 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.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I knew this but it's still one of my favourite facts ever and I'm so glad to read this here! :)

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"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."

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses 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!

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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.

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses Sea otters hold hands when they sleep and have a favorite rock to hold onto in a secret pouch.

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"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."

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses Oxford University in England is older than the Aztec empire.

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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."

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses 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

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses Cows have "best friends" and get stressed when separated.

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Lenka Smetanová
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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 :'(

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses 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.

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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.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This was not World War 1 but the war between Austria , Prussia, and Italy in 1866.

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses Most elephants weigh less than a blue whale’s tongue!

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses Tigers have striped skin

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought at first glance this was some kind of grain field. But better, actual tiger stripes!

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses Wombat poop is cube-shaped.

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses 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'

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Scotland’s national animal is a unicorn.

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses Cows get excited when they solve puzzles.

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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.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes! I've done something no one else in my direct line has ever done before. Sweet! Also, I will be the last person in my direct line to ever do this. Awesome! I win!

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Olof T
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You are joking but actually you do win. If you reproduce you are forced to use your best years to nurture, raise, worry and pay for a helpless and senseless creature. That creature will then have to go through this cruel and corrupting world with all it's pains and sorrows, only to do the same mistake and reproduce and spend their life nurturing their offspring.

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Olof T
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm pretty sure a lot of my ancestors chose not to have children. But lacking contraceptives or understanding of consequences of sex they still reproduced.

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Nia Loves Art
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They didn’t choose *not* to either though. Children were seen as an inevitable result of sexual activity, not a choice.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not necessarily - there were plenty of people who had children but it wasn't a choice. It was expected of them at the time period and contraception wasn't what it is now. So even if a couple didn't want children and tried to avoid it, they may still have had them - therefore, it was not their CHOICE to have children but that choice was taken away.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I get what you're saying, but it's kind of irrelevant. The point being: if you don't have kids, the direct line of your ancestry ends with you.

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Jonathon Smith
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My parents chose not to have children. I was a 'happy surprise'.....

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This statement would assume that every child ever born was through choice.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That makes my decision not to have children feel somehow even more Epic.

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it's me again
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well my sister is having kids all over the place so I'm thinking the family name will live on...

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smash17
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've decided that my ancestral line has reached perfection and need not be diluted! ROFL.

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Jonette Benavides
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This isn't true if you have an older sibling who also made this decision, and you have the same parents. Although, DNA characteristics are not consistent between 100% siblings...so I guess there's that.

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Parmeisan
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, that's not necessarily true. You're just the first person to successfully follow up on that decision. ;)

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Ruth Mayfly
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That wasn't even a possible choice for nearly all of that time.

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Karen Jones
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Technically, not everyone chooses to have children. You may very well not be the first in your line to choose not to have children, just the first to actually not have children.

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Brandy Grote
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think there were women who WANTED to make this choice, but if they were married, there was NO choice until the late 60s. Still a fascinating thought.

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Bethany GarzaLauber
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't know yet boys are WAAAAY too immature in 5th grade to have a boyfriend :(

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Coleen
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes. And if your parents didn’t have children, odds are you won’t either. 😜

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well logically, If my grand/great/ parents had decided to not have children I would not be here to make any decision.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not neccscaly. You may choose to not have them, but acidents still happen. So its possable your parents choose not to have you, and you choose to not have kids but still do, and choose as well.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm willing to bet there was a birth control failure somewhere along the way that resulted in parenthood not being a choice.

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Nia Loves Art
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Birth control failure probably, but that just means that they didn’t want that child, not that they didn’t want children at all.

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Anita Trenner
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What? I have an older brother and numerous cousins, all older than I, who never had children.

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Marius Jan
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But they're not the same line as you. They have a horizontal relationship to you while the direct line is a vertical relationship.

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Peter Kovak
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow, I liked this one. So simple logic, and so amazingly true!

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kathryn stretton
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gonna use this next time someone asks me, when they really really shouldn't, why I never had children.

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Kathy Baylis
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Logical. Otherwise you wouldn’t be here to make that decision.

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Garrett Wilson
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not true, your ancestors in the past could also choose not to have kids but their siblings did

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Then it wouldn't be YOUR direct line. It would be your ever-so-distant cousin's. But you wouldn't know it was your cousin's because you wouldn't exist.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, this blows my mind all the time but doesn't mean I change my decision.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not sure this makes sense if you have siblings that have kids.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If they have kids, their line continues. If you have kids, your line continues. If you do not have kids, your line stops.

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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.

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Adwaita, a giant tortoise who died in 2006, was born before the United States existed in 1750.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And he still died because of a wound (thanks, Wikipedia). Who knows how much longer he would have lived.

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses 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.

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When a cat walks towards you with its tail up that means it likes you and is excited to see you.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes! My old cranky cat from childhood did like me! I have vivid memories of him running across the yard, his big belly swaying, tail in the air, ready to headbutt me

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses 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.

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There were wooly mammoths on the planet when the Pyramids were being built.

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses Bees tell their friends about good nearby flowers by dancing.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They also raise one leg to warn you off if you get too close. I read about it and then checked it out with a few bees in my garden and they really do. It's cute.

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Before 1914 parents could mail their kids to Grandma’s – through the postal service.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Would they be boxed up? Or could you put the stamp on their forehead? I have so many questions.

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses 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.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Food taboos are an odd thing. In Western countries, most people are disgusted by the thought of eating insects yet devour prawn. Rather odd...

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The frequency of a cat's purr has been shown to improve bone density and strength.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses Pufferfish are full of water....not air.

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren't

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses At birth, a baby panda is smaller than a mouse.

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses There's an island in Japan populated by fluffy bunnies!!

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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.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow! Makes complete sense but for some reason, I never realized this.

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses There is a bank in Italy that trades entirely in parmesan cheese.

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses The pyramids were ancient when Cleopatra was around.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is actually a bigger time gap between the first pyramids and Cleopatra than between Cleopatra and today.

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses Cashews come from a fruit.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You cannot buy cashews with their shells because the outer parts can cause a rash like poison ivy. To protect consumers, they take them out of the shell before sale.

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Sharks predate trees.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sharks are awesome! My favourite animal when I was little. I still use this fact whenever there's the "say two truths and a lie about yourself" game.

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#37

A blue whale's heart is as big as a Volkswagen beetle.

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#39

Otters have skin pockets for their favorite rocks.

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#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.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In fact, code reviews, i.e. manually checkling code (line by line) in a small group of people is oftentimes more effective than sophisticated testing techniques.

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