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One father started telling his daughter very random yet very interesting facts before bedtime but her curiosity has outlasted his knowledge. So, desperate to keep his little one entertained, Redditor u/ExpiringFrog asked people to share tidbits of interesting things that could do the trick. His post quickly went viral, generating nearly 100k upvotes and over 20.5k comments, with cool facts about pretty much everything you could think of. From guinea pig owning laws in Switzerland to the time it takes a snowflake to reach the ground, I think it's safe to say that the father is covered with fun facts for kids and adults alike! The best part, however, is that you can enjoy these snippets even if you're not a little girl trying to fall asleep.

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses Some species of burrowing spiders keep teeny tiny frogs in their burrows to keep it free of bugs too small for the spider to get that might try to eat the spider's eggs. This means that tiny frogs are spider cats.

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You might say collecting weird facts don't really translate into anything useful. However, experts believe that playing trivia games can provide a dopamine rush much like gambling, just without the negative effects. And scrolling through posts filled with things to know might just prepare you for these competitions.

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses Maybe not mind-blowing, but sometimes dogs/wolves in movies need CGI tails if they’re supposed to be acting mean bc they’re so excited to be doing a good job acting that their tails can’t stop wagging.

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

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

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"You get a rush or a neuroreward signal or a dopamine burst from winning," John Kounios, Ph.D., professor of psychology and director of the doctoral program in applied cognitive and brain sciences at Drexel University in Pennsylvania, told Healthline. "I think whenever you’re challenged with a trivia question and you happen to know the random fact, you get a rush. It's sort of like gambling."

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses In Switzerland, it's illegal to own just one guinea pig; if you have any, you have to have at least two. They get lonely!

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Also, remembering these little pears of wisdom is easier if you're really passionate about the subject matter. "People really like to have some expertise on something and the brain is very good at focusing on things that you’re interested in," Deborah Stokes, Ph.D., L.P.C., B.C.N., a psychologist in Virginia, who focuses on neurotherapy, said.

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

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"In typical people, my observation, not backed up by any research, is that their interest in trivia is confined to topics that they are generally interested in," Kounios added. "So if a person is very interested in history, then they may either seek out history trivia, or they might just naturally pick it up in the course of learning about nontrivial aspects of history."

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

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But being a killer at trivia games doesn't necessarily mean you're more educated. "Some people soak up facts," the professor said. "Plenty of people with a lot more education may not remember what they had for breakfast yesterday morning."

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

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses Dogs can tell when you're coming home by how much of your scent is left in the house if you have a daily routine

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

cat can do it too... actually, when I still travel to schol by train,she Even start waking me up just a few minutes before my phone start to ring, also know, that on Tuesday I traveled the later rain because I start at schol by noon, and also know in which train that dayI would came back and waiting at the window to see me walking home.

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

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

I have a mare. She never have 'best' friend, but in the last stable, there was another mare, Angelika. My Sarah and Anelika become really good friend, Angelika always waiting for Sarah at the ener to pasture when I took her away to work or for a walk etc. ... Unfortunately, Angelika died this Febuary, she propably fell and broke her neck... My Sarah was so sad for several days, she start weaving at the pasture and after that she dont found another horse friend like Angelika :'(

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses Humans are bioluminescent and glow in the dark, but the light that we emit is 1,000 times weaker than our human eyes are able to pick up.

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#10

The Lichtenstein army went to battle in 1866, during the Austro-Prussian War with 80 soldiers and came back with 81. They befriended an Austria man along the way and he joined them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses The name for the Arctic comes from the ancient Greek word for bear - arktos. Named after one of the constellations Ursa Major (Big Bear) or Ursa Minor (Little Bear), but there are bears living there too. So basically, the Arctic is called 'Bear', and the Antarctic is called 'Not Bear'

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Scotland’s national animal is a unicorn.

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

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#17

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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#18

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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#19

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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#21

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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#23

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

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#24

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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#25

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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#27

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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#28

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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#29

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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#30

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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#31

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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#32

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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#33

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Sharks predate trees.

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

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

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#37

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

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#39

Otters have skin pockets for their favorite rocks.

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#40

There is the term „rubberducking“ which is used by programmers to help them find mistakes. They explain their problem to a rubber duck and by doing so often find a solution.

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

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

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses A polar bear's skin is black.

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#42

Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses Apples float but pears sink. Apples float because they are 25% air.

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

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!

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#43

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.

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#44

Mandarin for zebra translates as ribbon horse. Similarly, giraffes are long-necked deer, and pandas are big bear cats.

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Pineapples used to be so expensive that people would rent them as a centerpiece for their party.

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

A pineapple can take up to 3 years to mature but are often cultivated between 18-24 months and one plant grows one single pineapple.

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You can always see your own nose, but your brain learns to filter it out.

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#47

the word "bed" actually looks like a bed.

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#48

Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses Butterflies smell with their feet.

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses There are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than there are stars in our galaxy.

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

52!=80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000

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#50

Some penguins propose to mates by bringing them rocks for a nest.

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#51

Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses It snows metal on planet Venus.

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#52

Kangaroos will often lead predators to water, then continuously jump on and off of their heads to drown them to death.

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

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.

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#53

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.

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#54

France was still using the Guillotine when Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope came out.

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

And then, with the follow up bedtime story being about what a Guillotine was, the 4 year old never slept again...

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#55

A group of ferrets is called a business.

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#56

Giraffes have the same number of vertebrae in their neck as humans.

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#57

Babies are born without kneecaps.

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

When they're approximately 3 years old, the soft cartilage of the kneecap will turn into bone

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#58

Disney World is the second largest buyer and importer of explosives in the USA.

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

My first thought was WTF then realised they must be talking about fireworks.

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses A snowflake takes around 2 hours to reach the ground.

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#60

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.

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

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.

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#61

New Zealand has an official wizard.

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#62

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.

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

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

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#63

The worlds smallest bat is the size of a bumblebee.

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

How would you hit a ball with it? It must be tiny and who would be able to use such a bat?

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#64

If you live in the USA, you have better odds of dating Taylor Swift than dying of Ebola or Bird Flu combined.

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

I didn't expect to see a comparison of dating Taylor Swift and dying of Ebola or Bird Flu.

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#65

Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses Whales are closer to cows than to sharks.

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#66

6-year olds laugh an average of 300 times a day

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#67

Rainbows are circles.

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#68

Elephants are usually right or left tusked, the same way humans are right or left-handed.

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

You can tell which one by looking at the tusks. The one they prefer will have a mark on the preferred tusk

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#69

Male seahorses carry the baby in their tummy instead of the mommy.

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#70

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

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

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.

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#71

You are physically able to bite your own thumb off with ease, but your body automatically prevents you from using full force.

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

I wonder who was the unlucky soul that picked the short straw to test that theory lol.

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#72

Some frogs will glow when they eat fireflies.

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

In case you have neither frog nor fireflies at hand: youtu.be/PfpymnBeWBI

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses The building in the world with the most toilets is Wembley Stadium.

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#74

a platypus lays eggs and has milk. making it the only mammal that could, in theory, make its own custard.

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

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.

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#75

A single bat can eat half of their body weight, or up to 1,000 mosquitoes, a night.

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#76

Calls to plumbers double the day after Thanksgiving.

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#77

Cocoa was called cacauhatl in Aztec language meaning water of life. Same as Irish Gaelic word uisce beatha, but they meant whisky.

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#78

In France, it's still illegal to call your pig 'Napoleon'

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#79

The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters.

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

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

This happens because of the lack of oxygen in the water sometimes. They breathe the oxygen in H2O, they don't breathe water

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#81

Horses can’t vomit.

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

Nor can frogs. But they can just spit out their stomach, empty it and swallow it back down.

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#82

Jellyfish and lobsters are immortal unless outside forces intervene.

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

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..

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#83

Broccoli is classified as both a vegetable and a flower.

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

For hundreds of years farmers bred the plant Brassica Oleracea (wild mustard plant) into many different other varieties including broccoli, cauliflower, Brussel sprouts, Kale, cabbage and Kohlrabi.

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#84

You share 60% of your DNA with a banana.

You are 60% banana.

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

No wonder I keep getting bitten by insects - I taste GOOOOD!

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#85

A human’s ears and nose never stop growing.

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#86

Male lions sleep 23 of the 24 hours in a day.

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#87

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.

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#89

About 1 million people die from mosquito bites every year. That’s about 100 per hour.

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

Apparently more than half the people EVER born have died from mosquito bites.

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses They played golf on the moon one time.

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses There's a D in Fridge but not in Refrigerator

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses J K Rowling is richer than the Queen.

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#93

Messages from the human brain travel along nerves at up to 200 miles an hour (322 km/h).

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

i...don't ....get...it.....................................oh, now.....i ....do....

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#94

For an adult human, taking just one step uses up to 200 muscles.

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#95

Betty White is older than sliced bread.

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

Yeah, but "That's the best thing since Betty White" doesn't sound very good, does it?

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Ultramarathon runner Dean Karnazes once ran 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days

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

And pulled 50 muscles and had to visit 50 hospitals because he was so exhausted.

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The red food-coloring (carmine) that's used in a lot of candy is made up of a kind of beetle.

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

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

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.

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Making pennies cost more than their actual value.

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

The same holds true for the Euro cent. Thats why some countries already stopped using the 1 and 2 cent coins.

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#100

Koalas sleep 22 hours a day.

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If a human being’s DNA were uncoiled, it would stretch 10 billion miles, from Earth to Pluto and back.

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

I haven't quite worked it out, but I know we can somehow use this to travel to Pluto.

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Snails have the most teeth of any animal.

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Camels have three eyelids.

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

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.

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#104

Elephants cant jump.

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

and cant run they always have a foot on the ground no matter how fast they are walking

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#105

Pigs can get a sunburn.

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A teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh 10 million tons on earth.

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

"Lastly, add one teaspoon of neutron star and bake at 200°C to finish your apocalypse cake"

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#108

Slugs have four noses.

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

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.

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A woodpecker can peck 20 times per second

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

I have 3 different kinds in my yard that come to my bird feeder, all quite beautiful.

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A new star is born in our galaxy every 18 days.

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

So at some point there will be more than ways to shuffle a deck of cards?

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Violin bows are usually made from horse hair.

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

My grandpa used to make them. :) This fact wouldn't have impressed me at four years old.

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

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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.

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#115

Sharks don't blink.

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ABC and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star are the same song.

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Most people have more than the average number of arms.

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The average american eats approx 35,000 cookies in his/her life.

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#119

You are closer to death now than you have ever been.

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Balls lose their bounce when stored in the freezer.

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

I guess my balls would lose their "bounce", too, if you know what I mean.

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Father Asks Strangers To Suggest Interesting Facts He Could Tell His Daughter, Gets 40 Responses One time a guy ate an aeroplane. It took him several years but he did it.

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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.

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

If a flea was that large it wouldn't be able to take in enough oxygen to facilitate the jump in the first place

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#123

John Quincy Adams had a pet alligator that he kept in a White House bathroom.

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Harry Potter was the first children book series to make the NY Best Sellers List since Charlotte's Web in 1952.

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

I hadn't realised Charlotte's Web was such an old book. I think it was the first sad book I ever read.

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#125

A person’s sneeze can travel at speeds of about 100 miles per hour!

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

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!

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#126

A human’s little finger contributes over 50% of the hand’s strength.

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