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

I don't even know how bees work, and they are a real thing. :-O

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

This is wildly inaccurate... LARVA are given ROYAL JELLY which DOESN'T change them, ALLOWING them to become queens. All the other bees in the hive are permanently suppressed from normal development AS LARVA.

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

B******t. Royal jelly isn't a honey and they give it to a larvae so it will grow to be a queen

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Ashley Galyen
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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The nurse bees feed the larva to be queens royal jelly so their reproductive organs fully develop. When a bee stings you, the stinger and poison sac left behind is the modified underdeveloped reproductive system of the worker. Workers can still potientally lay eggs if the queen died and there were no larvae at the right age to give royale jelly to to create a new queen. These eggs will be unfertilized and create only drones. Drones don't work. Overtime the hive dies in this situation.

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

That's just wrong. They get it fed as larvae and if there is already another queen when they are grown up, they either try to fight it or leave an build up a new "kingdome".

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

I find the metamorphosis of caterpillars into moths and butterflies fascinating and so weird. But also a miracle. I suppose this is kind of like that,

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

That's not a fact, since it's fundamentally wrong in different ways.

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

I always wondered how come the queens are so big, how are they born :)))

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

The one mammal which does a similar thing is the naked mole rat. The new queen's body expands the space between the vertebrae in her backbone to become longer and ready to bear pups. It is also the only cold-blooded mammal.

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

I feel like their is some fantasy or sci fi book or movie where there is something like that.

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

Royal jelly. Roald Dahl wrote a short story about it.

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Carol Emory
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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually, when the queen dies, the combs where the larvae are growing are broken open and royal jelly is placed in it by the workers. The larvae then develops into a queen that is "born" like any other bee. If more than one queen emerges, there is a fight to the death until only one remains and becomes the new queen.

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

All bee lava are fed royal jelly (secreted from glands by bee workers) for three days. Those chosen to be queen are fed only royal jelly continually until ready to pupate and are sealed in a larger wax cells than workers. Worker and drone bees are fed a honey/pollen mix.

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

It's called Royal Jelly. For some reason, honey isn't kosher, but Royal Jelly is.

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

Keep in mind they are fed this special food in the larval stage.

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

Ahh yes, this remind me of one worker bee that made this special honey to become queen and overthrown the old bee empire.

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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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Pamela24
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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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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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