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.
And after eggs hatches family has ready meal. Double Win for spiders.
Load More Replies...Agreed is this like a hostage live in fear situation or do they share popcorn and watch movies type of relationship. Or do I even want to know?
Load More Replies...Djeez! Threw my phone across the room... The fact is kinda nice though :)
Yeah, they might have to eat the frog to keep the frog from eating the newly hatched spiderlings.
Load More Replies...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.
So, what do they do with the real tail? Do they paint it green so they can edit it out? :D
I think they make an artificial tail from a firm material that is placed above the real one. :)
Load More Replies...I don't understand why any animals would want to be with humans anymore. We are filthy, destructive parasites who destroy everything in our path out of greed for something.
"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!
Don't brag to much on your country. Our Prez may try and buy it!
Load More Replies...I ended up with one guinea pig as his furry friend died - tried another but he fought with them. He ended up living in a large open container in our living room (with appropriate things to hide in etc) so that he wouldn't get lonely and was the best little chatterbox. He would make a funny sound if he didn't like the music we were playing and we'd have to change it.
It's the same in Sweden, actually it's illegal to have any animal alone if it's a herding animal, except for dogs. They are considered to be ok with a human instead of other dogs but otherwise animals need the company of other animals of the same spices.
That's why it is also possible to rent a guinea pig: https://www.wideopenpets.com/swiss-pet-protection-laws-lead-rent-guinea-pig-business/
That is so sweet. I adopted one guinea pig in the past, and when I adopted a second, they couldn't get along. I was so sad for them.
I understand your pain. They are very sociable and you need to match the sexes, I cannot remember which two don't get along but a vet will be able to tell you more
Load More Replies...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
They can also be extremely cruel - kidnapping babies, sexually violent, drowning other creatures for no reason. They can be a real mixed bag, a bit like dolphins (or indeed humans).
Oh no! Lots of facts I didn't want to know about those adorable little monsters.
Load More Replies...I also like the the fact that mama sea otters "fluff up" their babies fur, to make them float, while they go find food. So cute!
I want this to be my spirit animal...but I thing I relate more to the sloth
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Load More Replies...They also rape baby seals to death and kidnap other seal babies told for food ransom: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/animals-can-be-giant-jerks/
"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.
I love this kind of comparison because they help to put things in pespective. At school, sometimes we learn isolated facts and it's really amazing when you just put them together, like small pieces of a much bigger jigsaw puzzle. I have another one I read somewhere, correct me if I'm wrong: there were still mamoths roaming in Northern Europe when the Egyptians were building the Pyramids.
I like these too, history needs to be taught intertwined, not just country by country. It would be much more interesting too.
Load More Replies...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."
Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.
Technically, they do have a belly button but it's more like a scar that fades. In the egg there is a cord that connects the chick to the yolk sack. When hatched they have a scar where the connection was. By they time they leave the next it has faded. I don't know about platypus's
Also male platypus have a spur on their back legs which delivers a non-lethal but incapacitating painful toxin and the are no pain killers that work against it! 'Straya!
And the pain can last months, even years.
Load More Replies...Yes they do. The amniotic membranes inside the egg are still attached at the umbilicus area. My husband and I breed oviparous (egg laying) snakes. When they hatch, they actually have a mark where that attachment was. (Like a belly button.)
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
Load More Replies...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?
Load More Replies...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.
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 :'(
Do you count this as a good thing or a bad thing?
Load More Replies...Quite logical. Animals have feelings and develop social behaviour, why not then have best friends?
And people STILL think they need to drink the milk of another species, even after they have past the age of being weaned. 😕
Not just cows: Seems to me like I remember a story about a burro, maybe, and a goat, best friends who were separated. So stressful was the loss of his best friend for the burro that his new humans had to locate the goat and reunite the two for fear the burro might actually die,otherwise.
That is very interesting, some think cows are not very smart !!!
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.
This is exactly the reason why no limb or so much as a toe can hang off the bed or be uncovered at night. All the night creatures might eat me.
Can't post the pic, but here's a link to the study which contains pics and tons more (interesting) info: https://www.sciencealert.com/you-can-t-see-it-but-humans-actually-glow-in-visible-light
Load More Replies...Ah, I get what you mean now, not weak as in the sense of poor vision, but poor low-light sensitivity. Like cats and foxes could pickup on a moon shadow, but they see 10 times fewer colours than humans and can only focus 20 meters ahead.
Load More Replies...... is THIS how the mosquitoes/bed post leg/door-frame when fumbling to the bathroom in the middle of night finds us?
Furniture, yes; mosquitoes actually find us by the carbon dioxide in our exhalations. If there are several people to choose from, they start the one that has the most sugar in her/his blood, which they can also smell.
Load More Replies...That would be so cool if someone could make that!
Load More Replies...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.
So does that make it a good war (Yay! Nobody died.) or a bad war (Boo! We were not victorious.)?
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Most elephants weigh less than a blue whale’s tongue!
This must be presuming that most (i.e., more than 50%) elephants have not yet reached adulthood, because adult male African elephants easily weigh more than twice as much as a 2.7 ton blue whale’s tongue. Females more than the tongue as well. The age of the blue whale is not stated, so I presumed an adult-to-adult comparison. I’m skeptical of this factoid.
Maybe it presumes that most of the remaining elephant population (and therefore "most elements") are female Asian elephants, which are around that weight.
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Tigers have striped skin
Nope! I'm not sure all of which animals do and don't specifically, but zebras' skin is just black, and I'm pretty sure tabby cats don't have striped skin despite having striped fur.
Load More Replies...My cat has striped skin. When she was spade they shaved one side of her tummy and you could see all her stripes. Very cool.
We had a calico cat whose tongue and other part s inside mouth were calico also.
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Wombat poop is cube-shaped.
It's the deep ridges of the intestine that cause the shape, it's a very slow process and it means the poop won't roll away when used as territory markers.
Load More Replies...And emu's have pyramid shaped scat. Australia really has some weird s**t
Dang, Australia! What is going on with your animals?
Load More Replies...Why is that poop taking a test? Or is the wombat taking the test and has such bad test anxiety it just s**t and left?
i just read an entire article on this. at work. on my work computer. clearly, HR will be calling me about a google search including key words "why is wombat poop cube-shaped" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/wombat-poop-cube-why-is-it-square-shaped/
That's it! My life is complete now! I've just learned the weirdest thing ever!
Here's another fact - Brine Shrimp poop is completely spherical, and makes up a majority of sand at the Great Salt Lake!
That’s really interesting. What zoo(s)? What led you to that profession?
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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'
The scientific name for the common raven is Corvus Corax - where Corvus is Latin meaning raven, and Corax being Greek for raven, making it "raven raven" ;)
Load More Replies...Well, the Arctic has bears, while the Antarctic does not have bears. So it is appropriate, after all.
The prefix 'anti' (ant-) here means opposite, not 'not'. So it's the region opposite to the Arctic. Like with Bari in Italy and Bar in Montenegro, which was originally named Antibari.
makes it easier to rmember where you find penguins and where you find bears
Actually, Arctic=of the Bear's and Antarctic=opposite of the Bear's. Antarctic could also mean "not of the Bear's" which is true as there are no bears in the Antarctic, but because of it there are plenty of penguins. So if we were to name the Antarctic in the same way the Arctic was named, the analogous name should be Penguinic!
We need to make Penguinic happen because it's totes adorbs
Load More Replies...It’s weird how My Little Pony taught me the Ursa Major and Ursa Minor constellation and what it means 😅
Scotland’s national animal is a unicorn.
According to folklore, the unicorn was the only creature that could kill a lion. Now, which country has the lion as its national animal, and a checkered history with Scotland?
What! And Bored Panda does not even have a picture of a Scots unicorn???
Cows get excited when they solve puzzles.
Most of the cows I've met were really stupid. But, my grandpa did have one cow who would be so proud of herself when she jumped the fence. She never ran away. She would just jump the fence and stand there until he came looking for her, then she would jump back over and just stare at him. She also figured out that poison ivy made her drunk. She convinced other cows to partake in this naughty pleasure. They would get drunk on poison ivy and fall over in the nearest ditch. She was such a pain in the butt!
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.
If you think that will END stupidity, watch the movie Idiocracy.
Load More Replies...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!
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.
Load More Replies...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.
They didn’t choose *not* to either though. Children were seen as an inevitable result of sexual activity, not a choice.
Load More Replies...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.
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.
Load More Replies...My parents chose not to have children. I was a 'happy surprise'.....
You weren't an accident. You were an unexpected addition. Tell them to kiss your butt.
Load More Replies...This statement would assume that every child ever born was through choice.
A guy made a choice, whether the woman did or not.
Load More Replies...Never thought of it that way...don't have and never wanted any two-legged kids. Too many humans on this planet!
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.
Thats how science works. You make a discovery, you classify it, the accumulation of additional data requires you to reevaluate that discovery, you reclassify it.
Load More Replies...Dear NASA scientists.. Your MOM thought I was big enough. Sincerely, Pluto
They'll say, no one can see us That we're estranged and all alone They believe nothing can reach us And pull us out of the boundless gloom
Adwaita, a giant tortoise who died in 2006, was born before the United States existed in 1750.
And he still died because of a wound (thanks, Wikipedia). Who knows how much longer he would have lived.
So, fun, but maybe too sad to share with a little girl before bedtime.
Load More Replies...Steve Irwin's tortoise Harriet was born in 1830, and died on my birthday (June 23) 2006. She was Charles Darwin's tortoise! Harriet-th...04fceb.jpg
But 73 years older than some might have you believe...
Load More Replies...They asked him and he made the appropriate number of claw marks. 😁🙃😁
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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.
I don't even know how bees work, and they are a real thing. :-O
Load More Replies...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.
B******t. Royal jelly isn't a honey and they give it to a larvae so it will grow to be a queen
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.
When a cat walks towards you with its tail up that means it likes you and is excited to see you.
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
headbutts are especially good from a cat, means they really like you!
Load More Replies...Cats love their humans more than they do their food. They will leave their food to socialize with you.
I had an old kitty girl I inherited from some friends who only ever wanted to sit in my lap as often and for as long as she could. Every night, I would come home and feed her right away, but she’d be crazed about getting me to sit in our favorite chair. Eating could wait as far as she was concerned. I miss my sweet little Vera so much.
Load More Replies...If the tail is vibrating it means they're maximally happy and excited and they love you!
And when the tail have a hook at the end she's even more exited to see you ❤️❤️
When it is question mark shaped they are curious.
Load More Replies...Do cats also have a favorite owner, like our family dog is more fond of me than the other member of my family.
I think all animals are like that. I’m the one who rescued my dog off the street, but even though he clearly loves me, he’s still head over heels in looooovvve with my husband. However, my three cats, two of whom he rescued, infinitely prefer me to him, though they love him too. Go figure.
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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.
"How's your day been?" "Feels like years..."
Load More Replies..."Factoid: Venus isn't a planet at all but a giant telescope lens pointing to a lion's fur. "
This is one of the reasons it's so hot. One side of the planet is roasting and there is very little rotation. No Coriolis effect to even it out. Scientists have proposed that it some how got a moon the size of Mercury, that it could encourage rotation to minimize the effect to make it more conductive to terraforming.
Imagine harvest time! All in a day's work! Another day, another dollar? Nooooo!
My cousin once got this fact wrong and thought it meant that a Venusian year took one Earth day.
Venus is also the only planet in our solar system that turns clockwise
There were wooly mammoths on the planet when the Pyramids were being built.
I've just mentioned this one in another comment. I read this a while ago and it was kind of mind blowing!
But only very small ones on islands off the coast of Russia. A subspecies with dwarfism
There are still wooly mammoths on the planet today. Just not living ones.
Bees tell their friends about good nearby flowers by dancing.
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.
Damn, I always thought they were giving me a high five!
Load More Replies...I've read about it, they dance in combos of 0s and 8s, and their dance is so good they can pinpoint THE exact flower in the whole meadow based on the dance.
They don't dance ON the flower. They go back to the hive and do a dance that includes distance and direction of where good stuff is.
and the flower on the pic is Fritillaria meleagris is a Eurasian species of flowering plant in the lily family. Its common names include snake's head fritillary, snake's head, chess flower, frog-cup, guinea-hen flower, guinea flower, leper lily, Lazarus bell, chequered lily, - ENDANGERED SPEACES
Before 1914 parents could mail their kids to Grandma’s – through the postal service.
Would they be boxed up? Or could you put the stamp on their forehead? I have so many questions.
Not boxed up and the stamp was stuck on a traveling coat or something else they were wearing _____________ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/05/24/mail-that-baby-a-brief-history-of-kids-sent-through-the-u-s-postal-service/?noredirect=on
Load More Replies...Why did we get rid of this? I know at least 3 kids who would be on their way to Antarctica right now.
Guess the postman are sick of all those "Are we there yet?" and now we have to drive our own kids.
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...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.
Very valid. Doesn't have to be a physical wound. When very sad over the loss of my husband, I found that my 5 cats took turns lying next to me in bed, purring very loudly.
I have ehlers danlos my cat will find dislocated bone sit and purr on it
Huh, I wondered if that's why I mysteriously stopped being vitamin D deficient?
Margaret Atwood incorporated this in her novel series oryx and crake
Pufferfish are full of water....not air.
No pufferfish live in fresh water. So unless you're growing a garden of mangrove, salt marsh grasses, kelp, or plankton, you're out of luck.
Load More Replies...Also, puffer fish will "puff up" when agitated or scared. Dolphins have figured this out. They bump into puffer fish, making them puff up, then bat them around in a group, like a beach ball. Actually is more like they pass the puffer fish around like a bong, since it gives them a high. Dolphins are so funny!
It's probably not funny for the puffer fish, though.
Load More Replies...Well of course they are..another "fun fact" - fish don't breath air, they get their oxygen directly from the water through their gills. A pufferfish is not a magical creature that can make air from water... Excuse the salty attitude.
Well, yes, but maybe some like myself had not pondered this at great lengths.
Load More Replies...That pufferfish is suffocating. That's not awesome
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Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren't
Strawnuts, actually. Edit: the "yellow dots" are, in fact, nuts. In German that would be a " SammelNUSSfrucht". That's why you could call it strawnut....no need to downvote a comment that was meant to be funny, I apologize.
Load More Replies...It's all to do with whether the seeds are n the inside or outside + how many there are. Multiple seeds inside (but not in individual sections) = berry. So strawberries aren't because the seeds are on the outside. Blackberries aren't, because each seed is in an individual segemnt (which, if I remember rightly, is called a drupesack).
And the things that people think are "seeds" are not....
Load More Replies...And bananas should have their seeds indide. Sometimes we still can see a blanck line in the middle, along the banana. Now they haven't seeds in order to be nicer to eat.
In fact, Cavendish, the banana dominating the world market, is not sawn out but multiplied from seedlings. This makes it extremely prone to deseases.
Load More Replies...They are called aggregate fruit because they stem from one flower with multiple ovaries. https://stanfordmag.org/contents/bananas-are-berries
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At birth, a baby panda is smaller than a mouse.
You can see the pink skin under his white butt fur:-)
Load More Replies...That's a lie. Baby pandas are the size of puppies when they're born. Kangaroos however give birth to babies that are smaller than mice.
There's an island in Japan populated by fluffy bunnies!!
Its actually a bunny hell. Some of the bunnies aren't fluffy due to diseases and parasites, and the bunnies diet completely depends on the tourists bringing them food, which usually isn't enough for all of them, or is mainly water and doesn't give them the nutrients they need. They also get no medical attention when they are wounded or sick and if they are lucky they live only a few years.
There's one in Brazil populated by poisonous snakes. It's against the law to go there.
It used to be a facility for the creation of chemical weapons, and the original rabbits were used as test subjects. After World War II, Japan signed the treaties banning said weapons, the plant was demolished, and the remaining rabbits were set loose before the island was abandoned. The rabbits are extremely friendly, having lived on an island with no natural predators, and are known to hop right up to people without a care.
There is one with tame deer as well, they're so used to people you can feed them. Don't do them harm though, they're somewhat sacred: https://www.insider.com/japanese-deer-island-deer-miyajima-nara-park-shinto-2016-7
Definitely not sacred, Nara has a culling program for population control, and I could have sworn Nara was on the mainland
Load More Replies...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.
I heard about this and scientists call this an anomaly. The odds of this are astronomical and potentially rare in the universe.
It is not a precise match. The moon oscillates in its orbit, so it is only true some of the time, which makes it statistically much more likely to exist in nature.
Load More Replies...The sun's size doesn't matter for a lunar eclipse; the earth is the object casting the shadow. The earth's shadow is about 2.5 times the size of the moon. The second sentence should say "This is why they look about the same size in the sky".
'farther" away, not further. Use 'farther' whenever you are talking about distance.
Also, it is theorized that because of the tides it creates, the moon accelerated the development of life on the Earth.
There is a bank in Italy that trades entirely in parmesan cheese.
*sneaks into the vault with a small plate and knife*
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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.
I was going to add that, but I saw you already had. It's crazy when you think about it!!
Load More Replies...Cleo was a descendant of a Greek general who was basically given Egypt by Alexander the great, the Ptolemaic line. So she really wasn't even Egyptian.
Cleopatra lived closer to e first manned moon landing than the first pyramid.
Cleopatra was also part Greek since she was a descendant of Ptolemy, one of the Generals that served under Alexander the Great.
The old age question of mortality. 5000 years from now people will also wander about our way of life that is if the nukes remain unused
Cashews come from a fruit.
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.
I was so excited to find the tree in my yard was cashew tree. Read about preparing them .... had my hubby cut it down the next day!
Load More Replies...Yeah, we used to eat those growing up in Nigeria. The juice from the fruit leaves permanent stains on your clothes. We always left the seeds to the adults. I had a few friends at school who got burnt by the seeds
Sharks predate trees.
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.
This one confused me until I realised the difference between pre-date and predate. Sharks definitely do not hunt down trees for breakfast.
Thank you, I didn't even get it until I read your comment! haha
Load More Replies...There are deep water sharks off of the coast of green that are so old that some may be older than the word "shark".
I read that as predate i.e. eat trees, rather than … oh well, it's been a long day!
"predate" sounded wrong in my head and I just had a moment of "how? Trees are on land"
A blue whale's heart is as big as a Volkswagen beetle.
Kangaroos can’t walk backwards.
It is why it and the Emu are on our coat of arms, so Australia will always move forward.
As an Aussie I was going to write the same thing but thought I'd check comments first. No point in doubling up on info.
Load More Replies...Neither can emus. That's why they're on our Australian coat of arms. Never go backwards.
Neither can emus, which is supposed to be one of the reasons why they were chosen for the Australian state of arms, never take a step backwards.
Neither can the emu. This is why they are on Australia's ciat of arms. To signify us moving forward.
Neither can emus - which is why they both are on the Australian coat of arms
4th time for this comment. Now we know who the Aussies are. : )
Load More Replies...Partly, but also because of the joints in their knees. They don't allow the kangaroo to move backwards. Also because they mainly jump.
Load More Replies...Otters have skin pockets for their favorite rocks.
Just don't Google facts about them. It will ruin your perception of the cute little Devils.
Load More Replies...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.
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.
It can be, but often you are able to detect mistakes only when you test the whole system and how components interact with each other, what is impossible for code review. Both methods are valuable and best used together ;)
Load More Replies...Why not explain it to a cow? They get excited when they solve a puzzle. I read that in one of the posts placed higher in this list :)
Good point, but try getting one in your office or at home.
Load More Replies...Funny how you can have a problem rolling around in your brain for days, but the minute you start talking it through (even if you’re only talking out loud to yourself—-or to a rubber ducky), and you can actually hear it, the solution becomes crystal clear.
As an IT tech I think that average rubber duck is more inteligent than average end-user.
"Hey, programmers are idiots" * throws a duck at me* ... * I catch the duck and run away* "Score!"
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A polar bear's skin is black.
Their skin is dark to collect more heat. Their hair is white and hollow so the sunlight shines throu.
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!
Like the Asian Pear? Totally thought it was an apple, the first time I saw one.
Load More Replies...This reminds me of a science project I presented in middle school. If you take diet coke and regular coke and place them in a bucket, one sinks and the other floats. Diet will float and the regular will sink due to sugar as far as I remember (or something with carbohydrates, but I don't know why I keep going back to that idea). Has to do with density
Sooo... would an apple-pear (also known as an Asian Pear) - stay suspended in the middle?
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.
calicos, tortoiseshell cats are almost always female and orange are mostly male
and if you want to know what "point" a Siamese kitten is, you can turn it upside down and see the colour on the bottom of its feet, since they are born white.
It is the same for many breeds. Someone actually invented a wearable cooling pack so you can can make cats fur grow in strange patterns
Mandarin for zebra translates as ribbon horse. Similarly, giraffes are long-necked deer, and pandas are big bear cats.
you forgot 'eagle' at its end, so its 'cat head eagle'... dwl
Load More Replies...Pineapples used to be so expensive that people would rent them as a centerpiece for their party.
And they designed special manure boxes to keep them hot when growing. This disgusting fact brought to you by watching Bob the builder with my son
also pineapples can explode if they've been left for too long because they start fermenting and that causes gas pressure that makes them then bust out of their skin
I learned this fact while reading classic literature. In a lot of stories people wanted pineapples painted on their walls, or they would have a pineapple as a centerpiece and someone would remark about them being "well to do". I'm reading that thinking, "What a weird focal point! Better Google it."
How do you _rent_ a pineapple? It's supposed to be eaten, not shown, and after eating, you can't give it back ó_O
It was exotic and expensive. If someone imported them, renting them away several times for decoration probably made more money than selling them once for eating.
Load More Replies...You can always see your own nose, but your brain learns to filter it out.
And you see upside down, but your brain flips it's the right way round
the word "bed" actually looks like a bed.
Butterflies smell with their feet.
I knew this one, I knew this one, I knew this one... if this were a test, I wouldn't get 0
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
Imagine you have only 6 cards. The potential ways of arrangig it are 6 x 5 x4 x3 x2 x 1first you have 6 cards to arrange, then 5, then 4 then two and then only 1 card left.
Load More Replies...And there was probably no decks that were shuffled the same way since the beginning of time and it most likely won't be. :O
Bizarrely there are some bridge leagues that have been strictly recorded and freak 'that should never happen' sequences of shuffles have occurred, defying all the maths.
Load More Replies...Some penguins propose to mates by bringing them rocks for a nest.
"Sure" *takes your brick and adds it it my collection* "Soon I will have enough to build a house"
Load More Replies...There has also been instances where if a penguin sees that another penguin has a nicer rock he will try to steal it. And if a female penguin sees a rock she likes she will offer her "services" to get it. Yes there are penguin thieves and prostitutes out there.
We kind of do... the penguins only want the prettiest and best rocks available.. So diamonds kind of fit the bill.
Load More Replies...Otters may want to date penguins, sounds like they both appreciate rocks.
Isn't that what we humans do? Just a smaller, more expensive rock.
It snows metal on planet Venus.
And would aliens on Venus build metalman instead of snowman?
Load More Replies...Can't wait for the day scientist discover oil in other planets... the americans will advance space travel in a year
This would be "accurate" as the metal falling would be in its solid, not liquid state.
Load More Replies...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.
The more I learn about kangaroos the less I'm likely to invite them to dinner.
Kangaroo: "Before you kill me, come look at this real quick. That's right look deep into the water. It's cool, I swear." *Kangaroo then proceeds to curb stomp that mfer into the water*
I used to have a wolf as my spirit animal... but now Kangaroo it is!
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.
Ha ha ha me too. I don't do well with time and distance either 🙈
Load More Replies...This is based off of the "Twin Paradox Theory," but it isn't a paradox and literally no one knows why it's called that. Essentially there are twins (A and B), both born at the same time and meant to die at the same time. Twin A stays on Earth and Twin B travels through space. Twin B comes back to Earth after some time and is younger than Twin A. Twin A will die sooner than Twin B, but both will die at the same time biologically. That's the best way I can explain it, but there is a whole lot of other information pertaining to this. If you are interested in seeing the graphical representation of how it works, just search up "Twin Paradox Space Time Diagram" on google. It's what I was using in my relativity course
There is also one other thing that I thought might be good to mention. Since space is relevant to time, essentially when we are talking to someone, we are talking to their past selves. We are in a different space and difference concept of time, but because it is so minimal, we do not notice it. That's why (in the words of my beloved professor), the only time two people can coexist in the same space and time... is when we hug
Load More Replies...Only 10 years passed in your frame of reference so you'd age 10 years.
Load More Replies...France was still using the Guillotine when Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope came out.
And then, with the follow up bedtime story being about what a Guillotine was, the 4 year old never slept again...
not necessarily....4/5 year old me wanted to be an executioner when I grew up. Thought putting the bad guys to sleep forever seemed like a good job.
Load More Replies...A group of ferrets is called a business.
Giraffes have the same number of vertebrae in their neck as humans.
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.
My first thought was WTF then realised they must be talking about fireworks.
A snowflake takes around 2 hours to reach the ground.
Nah they just screw around in the cloud for 90 minutes then wander down
Load More Replies...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.
And then tell her what a nuclear bomb is and how it's been used. It's good to know as soon as possible. But don't tell her about who has the red button now or she won't sleep anymore.
He doesn't have to tell her all these things right away. He can pace himself.
Load More Replies...yeah, but you mean bronze. Copper by itself would be way to soft to form an effective melee weapon
There have been copper daggers and (I think) copper halberds from Ireland. An improvement on flint daggers and wooden clubs. But yeah, certainly no swords I can think of.
Load More Replies...And a million times longer to begin to get our world back if all humanity's bombs were used...
We haven't exactly substituted swords for nuclear bombs! "I challenge you to a duel" Blows up the entire country.
Not surprising. When your world population is low, your time is spent surviving, not having the "leisure" time to think about the world and how it works.
For my money it's just the opposite. The average person had a lot more free time when their work was dictated by the sun and seasons. Today we are constantly obliged to work by electric lights and a monetary economy. Equally, we are constantly forced to innovate to keep up with our peers at the personal, company and national level. Population certainly plays an important role, but I would think it is mostly down to the increasing weight of accumulated knowledge about the world allowing us exponentially more control over the world.
Load More Replies...I think the key point here is not weapons as the defining aspect of this is the speed of communication. In ancient times communication could could take months or even decades to cross cultures however in modern times it is almost instantaneously. In ancient times empires would last hundreds of years because of the speed of communication whilst soon we will be able to see the rise and fall of empires in a single lifetime
New Zealand has an official wizard.
We in the USA laugh, but we have a Congressional Chaplain, and Christianity is also fiction.
He casts spells for good weather and goes to public events casting spells for kids to be happy and loved. He drives a VW beetle with two fronts and has been rocking the Harry Potter Wizard vibe since the 70s
He needs to go cast some good weather joojoo on those bits suffering drought for so long.
Load More Replies...I saw him when I was in Christchurch, that would be a wonderfull job to have
We do? Oh wait I think he's in Christchurch. Um yeah not my wizard!
It's like the equivalent of America's underpants cowboy guy with the guitar.
Load More Replies...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.
Mine used to sleep on my chest with eyes closed and a twitchy nose, she also regularly left little 'gifts' on me after she'd woken and jumped off...but that's another story
"but that's another story" XD i literally spit my drink
Load More Replies...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?
Be slightly more annoying caught up in the curtains.
Load More Replies...Kitti's hog-nosed bat The bumblebee bat, also known as Kitti's hog-nosed bat, is the world's smallest bat and the smallest mammal in the world based on skull size. Weighing in at just around 2 grams, it's so small that you might actually confuse one for a bumblebee if it went buzzing by your ear in the night.
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.
Given the songs she's put out, I imagine several of her exes make that comparison all the time.
Load More Replies...You have an even greater chance of Taylor Swift writing a song about you when you ultimately break up
Whales are closer to cows than to sharks.
Whales are much close to dogs, raccoons and bears than cows, I believe. EDIT: I Believe wrong (see below)
I don't think so. Whales are in the order Artiodactyla, or "even-toed ungulates". They're most related to animals like hippos.
Load More Replies...6-year olds laugh an average of 300 times a day
My 6 year old laughs at pretty much everything. I believe this wholeheartedly!
Rainbows are circles.
If you can find the end of the circle, you get the gold. They're not going to make it easy.
Load More Replies...I knew this, when you see a rainbow from an airplane, it looks like a circle.
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
Unless their teachers force them to be one or the other, which can lead to an anxious elephant.
Male seahorses carry the baby in their tummy instead of the mommy.
I always wonder how they decided that it was the male carrying the baby. Probably something simple and technical. But the 'female' has an ovipositor/penis which would be the usual criteria for assigning sex. Is it just down to the fact the 'female' has the larger gametes that look like eggs? Or are there signs that make it obvious the 'female' has the traditional egg-laying role in closely related species?
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
No. The average hummingbird weighs 4 grams and a penny weighs 2.5 grams. There might be a certain species of hummingbird that weighs less but on average this is not the case.
It states a hummingbird weighs less than a penny, and yes, the smallest of the species does indeed.
You are physically able to bite your own thumb off with ease, but your body automatically prevents you from using full force.
I wonder who was the unlucky soul that picked the short straw to test that theory lol.
How do you know that it isn't? Just because you've never heard of it doesn't make it not true lol
Load More Replies...Some frogs will glow when they eat fireflies.
I saw a video of this on the internet, the frogs stomach was blinking. https://youtu.be/PIjfdHwdF_s
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The building in the world with the most toilets is Wembley Stadium.
In the US, public buildings have their plumbing tested by simulating a worst-case scenario of every toilet in the building being flushed at once. Can Wembley Stadium stand up to that?
Good thinking in the design of the new Wembley Stadium.The old stadium had so few toilets and the queues were so long, men would just p**s against the walls.
a platypus lays eggs and has milk. making it the only mammal that could, in theory, make its own custard.
Almost correct. Echidnas also lay eggs and produce milk. They come under the label monotreme. There are only 5 species of monotremes which are the platypus and 4 different types of echidnas. They can only be found in Australia and New Guinea.
YES!!! One of the few biofacts that has stuck with me forever. Monotremes also all happen to be very cute... hence why when I saw that Knuckles was supposed to be an Echidna I was quite distressed (That... is NOT... an Echidna!)
Load More Replies...I think the echidna would be more succesful at making custard, because its front paws are better suited for the task.
Now I have the mental picture of a platypus wearing a chef's hat and preparing a custard...
I think I read that somewhere, too, but where was that? Oh, right, further above.
Load More Replies...That's disgusting. Why would anyone think of that? Did someone think, "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if we could make custard from the product of a single animal? I wonder if there is such an animal? Oh, a platypus could do it!"?
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.
whisky and tequila are nasty-i prefer schnapps and rum
Load More Replies...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
No, they don't breath the oxygen in H20 - if they would, they couldn't "drown" (wrong word, suffocate would be correct). H20 always contains oxygen, if it doesn't, it's not water anymore. Fish breath oxygen dissolved in water. They can suffocate when this oxygen is used up by other processes, for example the decay of organic material.
Load More Replies...Fish require oxygen, just like we do. Oxygen is naturally present in water. So when their water contain too little oxygen, then they die just like human when drowning.
When there is not enough oxygen in the water. https://www.fishkeepingworld.com/can-fish-drown/
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Load More Replies...Horses can’t vomit.
Nor can frogs. But they can just spit out their stomach, empty it and swallow it back down.
No they can't vomit at all which is why the colic and choke from which they can die. Its why you have to stomach tube them to bring all that stuff back up
Load More Replies...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..
..so maybe they count their "outer skeleton" as an outside force? ; )
Load More Replies...Broccoli is classified as both a vegetable and a flower.
I disagree....it's very much a real vegetable. Maybe not a naturally evolved vegetable...but a real one none the less.
Load More Replies...You share 60% of your DNA with a banana. You are 60% banana.
LOL! And hair. We're anxious and hairy bananas.
Load More Replies...Really... according to my parents and all my Asian friends... I'm 100% Banana.
Actually, I read that it's between 60 and 62%. Does that mean some people are more banana than others? Lol.
A human’s ears and nose never stop growing.
As I recall, it's not that they continue to grow but that the skin and cartilage sag, making them appear larger. Correct me if I'm wrong
You're probably right, much like the old myth that hair and nails continue to grow even in your grave. They don't, the skin just shrinks back making them look longer.
Load More Replies...Just need to look at a photo of an old man and compare it to one of him younger... it is obvious then. More so on men than women for some reason.
Load More Replies...Male lions sleep 23 of the 24 hours in a day.
Please don't use the term spirit animal, it appropriates native american spiritual practices. Instead you can say patronus, favourite animal, kindred spirit...
Load More Replies...Most sources say 18-20 hours. How about some fact-checking before reposting "facts"?
Perhaps the ones they asked were lying - or lioning.
Load More Replies...Actually, I'm pretty sure it's only a little more than 20, not the whole day.
Because the women do all the hunting. Male lion's are lazy as s**t and basically just pee to mark their territory. They only fight when challenged and that's not that often.
not exactly true, the sleep 21 hours a day, hunt 1 hour, and chill 2 hours, infact the other animals know when a lion has been fed, so when the lion is satiated and resting they will walk right next to the lions with no fear. But this is only true about sleeping unless it is mating season (in which case they spend a few hours with all the females in the pride and try to a*s more females), or if there is a food or water shortage and they have to go searching
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.
so basically they can date 5 fitems before they start ctrying because that idiot brok their heart
About 1 million people die from mosquito bites every year. That’s about 100 per hour.
Apparently more than half the people EVER born have died from mosquito bites.
The mosquito is the deadliest animal on earth and has (indirectly IE malaria) killed more people than any other animal.
Diseases transmitted by mosquitoes include malaria, dengue, West Nile virus, chikungunya, yellow fever,[1] filariasis, tularemia, dirofilariasis, Japanese encephalitis, Saint Louis encephalitis, Western equine encephalitis, Eastern equine encephalitis,[2] Venezuelan equine encephalitis, Ross River fever, Barmah Forest fever, La Crosse encephalitis, and Zika fever,[2] as well as newly detected Keystone virus and Rift Valley fever.
They played golf on the moon one time.
How very American! Bringing the dullest sport of all time to a big rock floating out in space!
A frisbee would simply fall in a parabolic arc, like any other object thrown on the moon. Frisbees rely on a cushion of air created by a pressure difference between their upper and lower surfaces.
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There's a D in Fridge but not in Refrigerator
Depends on where you live. I left out bananas in SA just once. Mush in a matter of hours.
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J K Rowling is richer than the Queen.
And she just dropped off the billionaires list due to her philanthropy, that is great!
Not anymore isn't she? JKR donated so much she fell off the richest list I read
Anne, She donated so much that she is no longer a billionaire. But she is still plenty rich.
Load More Replies...Messages from the human brain travel along nerves at up to 200 miles an hour (322 km/h).
i...don't ....get...it.....................................oh, now.....i ....do....
Pretty sure mine goes 4X this...which probably explaines why windows keep exploding around me
For an adult human, taking just one step uses up to 200 muscles.
Which explaines why immobility can case the muscles to atrophy at 2% per day
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.
People say that a lot, but I really think that considering the differences in anatomy, it's really not accurate to call it "vomit". It doesn't have bile in it or anything.
Load More Replies...Yep. Love me some crushed up beetles in my food. Yum! Also, most natural raspberry flavoring is actually beaver a**l gland juice. Technically, it's natural. I type this while sipping a raspberry Coke. Yum!
In the US it might be, but usually it's just produced by bacteria or mold, like most things called natural flavouring.
Load More Replies...I JUST chomped down on a red covered liquorice snack at the exact moment I read this. Thanks, BP.
Some fish cough.
How? They don't have most of the organs they would need for that. You probably mean "spit out water to get rid of stuff inside their mouths". That's not coughing. That's spitting.
Dude, these are facts for a 4 years old....
Load More Replies...My husband and I do that too. He's a lot more talkative than I am.
Load More Replies...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.
I'd love them to stop that altogether, basically getting us rid of all those x,99 prices. If it's 1,99€, why not simply make it 2€ and get rid of that one cent nobody needs and wants either?
Load More Replies...But the US Mint does't manufacture pennies to give them to themselves to create government revenue, but rather to distribute to banks who then circulate them in the economy. Pennies still play an important role in the economy; for Starbucks say, a difference in their accounting, amounting to pennies on a cup of coffee - multiplied by the billions of them they sell, adds up to a very substantial amount of money. It could create real problems for them and many other major businesses if there were no pennies.
Koalas sleep 22 hours a day.
Koalas also eat virtual poison and that's the only thing they eat, which is why they are so tired all the time, because they get barely any nutrition from their food
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.
Snails have the most teeth of any animal.
Snails have rows and rows of microscopic teeth. Together these rows make a radula (a rasp like structure used for scraping food). Snails can have anywhere from 2000 to 15,000 teeth, depending on species.
Load More Replies...Camels have three eyelids.
Also some people believe camels store water in their humps when in fact the water is stored in their stomachs from constantly chewing their food. The humps mainly consist of fat.
They don't store water, they use the water they get from metabolising the stored fat.
Load More Replies...Elephants cant jump.
and cant run they always have a foot on the ground no matter how fast they are walking
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1426495/Scientists-prove-elephants-can-run.html
Load More Replies...Either all four-legged mammals have 4 knees or none does.
Load More Replies...Pigs can get a sunburn.
that also goes for relally light colored horses like perlino or albino
Or any with pink noses with a blase or snip for example or any sort of pinto. But not greys cause their skin is black
Load More Replies...pigs have in general a similar skin as humans do. Tattoo-artists use pig-skin when they learn how to tattoo
How long is your pigtail? Because mine is.... NÃO, PERA.
Load More Replies...That's why they roll in the mud. Natural sunscreen. Elephants, rhino's and hippo's will do the same thing.
A teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh 10 million tons on earth.
"Lastly, add one teaspoon of neutron star and bake at 200°C to finish your apocalypse cake"
for a split second, before it explosivelly evaporated, obliterating everything within quite large radius.
Baby bats are called pups.
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.
A new star is born in our galaxy every 18 days.
I just did the math. According to Wikipedia, there are 100-400 billion stars, so I'll average on 250 billion (doesn't quite matter, you'll see). That's 2,5*10^11 stars. Let's call this S. Ways to shuffle a deck of cards, let's call it W, W = 52! = 8,07*10^67 (quite the other number). So stars needed would be N = W - S = 8,07*10^67 - 2,5*10^11 = 8,07*10^67, no change there. Time needed sums up to N * (1 star / 18 days divided by 365 days / year) = 3,98*10^66 years. Not considering the stars that die in the meantime. Guess we can shuffle quite a while. Oh, and trust me, I'm an engineer (guess otherwise I wouldn't have bothered to grab the calculator :D)
Load More Replies...Maybe, but I don't count reality shows cast members and internet influencers.
OMG the Universe is a reality TV show....that's it I'm checking out now
Violin bows are usually made from horse hair.
Giraffe tongues are black.
Only way to clean their ears. Just imagine a giraffe sitting down and scratching their ears like a dog or a cat does. :D
Load More Replies...Bullfrogs never sleep.
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
A lot of shark species have what are called nictitating membrains that cover their eye while eating to protect it. Other species roll their eyes back in their head while biting.
ABC and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star are the same song.
..because those who made the ABC song used a tune that most children already were familiar with.
Most people have more than the average number of arms.
You're right because some people don't have any and some have one... so the average would be less than 2
Load More Replies...Simple math - there are more people with less than two arms than there are people with more than two arms.
Most people have two. But due to amputations etc, the average number of arms is slightly below two.
Load More Replies...I mean, yeah, because the average is going to be slightly lower due to people having 1 or 0 arms.
If 1% of people have 1 arm, then the mean is 1.99 and hence 99% would have more than 1.99.
Load More Replies...The average american eats approx 35,000 cookies in his/her life.
How many biscuits do they eat then? If a cookie is a type of biscuit then surely it must more than double?
You are closer to death now than you have ever been.
"And when you wake up, you will be 8 hours closer."
Load More Replies...And this is a FABULOUS thing to tell your 4 year old... get 'em paranoid early???
Balls lose their bounce when stored in the freezer.
Now that one's gonna get downvoted, but I just couldn't resist :>
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One time a guy ate an aeroplane. It took him several years but he did it.
I can't even upvote... I'm too scared to think of his teeth.... OMG
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
If a flea got that big, I would be more concerned about how to kill it. I would not care to see if it could jump or not.
Load More Replies...an old joke - don't through toothpicks in the toilet, the fleas are using them to pole vault out.
I don't know man....jumping sounds like a lot of work. Think I'll just take the elevator this time.
Load More Replies...John Quincy Adams had a pet alligator that he kept in a White House bathroom.
Is he the reason we have laws about not keeping alligators in bathtubs?
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!
I always thought it would be so interesting if we could at will produce the same force as our body does when sneezing. Blow out that birthday cake from across the room!
You should check out the spitting contests in the US. There's a guy in Michigan who can spit a cherry pit 48 feet. Totally useless skill, but interesting.
Load More Replies...False, only 10 mph http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0059970
A human’s little finger contributes over 50% of the hand’s strength.
I has to do with the grip your hand is using. The little finger provides important oppositional force for the thumb but it has to be oriented within a certain range to get it's optimum leverage.
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...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!
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