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Parent Asks For Mind-Blowing But Simple Facts That Would Satisfy A 3-Year-Old Before Bedtime, Gets 30 Responses
Kids see their parents as their superheroes and think that they know everything there is to know about the world. But being a parent to an inquisitive child is like living with the constant possibility of a pop-quiz coming up—you never know when they’ll ask you why the sun shines, whether aliens exist, or when they’ll want to hear random facts about the universe.
That’s exactly the challenge that Reddit user MoonBaboon was faced with. The redditor asked the online community what mind-blowing but simple facts would satisfy their 3-year-old son’s daily request for one fact before bedtime. And people delivered!
From facts like pink dolphins actually being real to interesting trivia tidbits like somebody having had the hiccups for 68 years, these bits of knowledge are fun for everyone, not just parents. We’ve collected the best mind-blowing facts, so scroll down and remember to upvote your faves. When you’re done with this list, have a look at Bored Panda’s earlier post about a father who asked strangers for interesting facts to tell his daughter.
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#1
Crows can see a color that we can't called ultraviolet. Their feathers have pretty patterns on them, like peacocks, but they're all colored ultraviolet, so even though they look black to us, they all look really fancy and colorful to each other.
Dynein 5 years ago
All birds see ultraviolet as a unique color (Not just as a shade, but a whole different color, the way green and red are different to us). And I could nerd about animal color vision all day! Mammals actually have very poor color vision, and primates have just begun to appreciate a fuller palette. Some reptiles and fish have/had very advanced vision, and their ancestors (which includes birds) never went through a period of collective vision degeneration like mammals, and therefore are millions of years of vision evolution ahead of us. Four unique colors, all well spaced out on the spectrum (not squished together like our newly evolved green/red differentiation), sharpened vision....... *sigh*
Jace 5 years ago
They’re not millions of years of evolution ahead of us. Evolution doesn’t work that way. There is no ahead, no behind, and no destination or goal. It’s just change over time. Adaptation to need... or a lack of need.
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Nora Beckett 5 years ago
Crows and ravens are still really beautiful birds tho! I really like how, when their feathers catch the light, you can see multiple colors sort of "within" the black. It's very cool.
Randy Klefbeck 5 years ago
I was at a wild animal park years ago that had an performance exhibit involving a red tail hawk. It was more than a half mile away, when the falconer trainer signaled it back with a lure. It zeroed in on a 10inch circle of a spinning little fleshy fake mousey toy, and was perched on the falconer's gauntlet in less than a half minute.
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
Now, you have to take this information and translate it to the language of a three - year old.
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#2
There is a species of burrowing tarantula that lets tiny frogs live in their burrows. The frog eats pests that are too small for the spider to get, and in return, the frog is kept safe by the big ol' spider. This is pretty much how the domestication of cats went.
Tiny frogs are tarantula housecats.
Chris 5 years ago
People say get a cat if you have a mouse problem. I never had a mouse problem until I got a cat. Little bastards bring mice in, play with them, then get bored and leave the mouse running about.
AnnieLaurie Burke 5 years ago
Cats are not natural hunters. They have to be taught to hunt and kill prey by their mothers. They will naturally chase moving things, but, unless they are taught to be predators by Mom, they don't get the kill-and-eat part. I had a beautiful kitty once (lost her to an aggressive cancer) that loved to chatter at birds through the window. When she went out into the garden with me, she would chase the birds' and butterflies' shadows on the ground. She was not at all interested in looking up and seeing the actual critters. So, your cats could be like a lot of humans and blame their mothers for not meeting society's expectations.
Load More Replies... Dynein 5 years ago
Cats, AFAIK, are the only animals that domesticated themselves. Living with humans was beneficial for cats because that was where they could find prey reliably, and tolerating cats in their settlements was beneficial for humans. The wolf personality had to be changed significantly before they were turned into proper dogs, and required active human input, but for the ancestors of house cats all that was required was "thinking that being around humans is good". There probably was still a little input, but since human-settlements-preferring cats were pretty much guaranteed to find plenty of food and therefore be well-fed and well able to reproduce, most of the domestication likely just happened by itself.
Ian Koch 5 years ago
Is it just me or does the spider look kind of cute because of it's fur(?)
Randy Klefbeck 5 years ago
I had them as pets as a kid. They are pretty docile and cute, if you can handle stickly feet crawling on you.
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Dianna Siever 5 years ago
Somebody needs to tell that spider that tiny frogs are not pets. They are wild animals and by bringing them into their tunnel they are ruining them of their ability to forge for themselves.
Sara Diogo 5 years ago
What? Pests too small for a spider to eat? I want to keep very far away from that monster.
Marlene Ricker 5 years ago
This has to be the most interesting fact I have ever learned. I still don't like spiders but this is a cool thing that tarantulas have housefrogs.
Brandon Sergent 5 years ago
Cats were attracted to our trash piles and our feeding and petting of them. Dogs are much better anti-vermin utility animals. TLDR: Froggos.
#3
sea otters hold hands while they are sleeping to not drift apart
Nicky OldfieldDesciple 5 years ago
They also mate fro life. A male otter will find a perfect pebble and present it to his mate which she will keep just like an engagement ring. They have little skin pockets to keep them in. Under each forearm are baggy pockets of loose skin. The sea otter uses these pockets to store food it has gathered. It also stores favourite rocks that it uses for cracking open molluscs and clams.
Randy Klefbeck 5 years ago
HANDS????!!!! Did I miss something in Bio 101? How'd they get thumbs??
MoonBabboon’s post got over 55.3k upvotes on r/AskReddit and the redditor received several awards for their wholesome question.
Sure, random facts are cool, but they’re more than just that—they actually help turn your child into a more capable person, preparing them for the future. UK researchers conducted a study about the link between how engaged parents were in their children’s learning and how well the kids did academically later on.
#4
Crows have the critical thinking skills of a 7 year old child… which is far superior to most animals
Kirsten Kerkhof 5 years ago
And they hold grudges. My cousin, as a child, p*ssed of a crow. The crow's mates joined in to throw nuts and small rocks at him. After a little while the cousin moved away internationally and only visited 10 years later. Guess who was welcomed by a delicate hazelnut to the head? yup ...
Vic 5 years ago (edited)
This is brilliant! I mean about the crows, sorry about your cousin's peril.
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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 5 years ago
I still think that a murder of crows would do a better job leading a nation that some of our politicians.
GirlFriday 5 years ago
My neighbor Dave also has this same level of intellect. He is in his 50's though and mostly human.
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago (edited)
Unfortunately - tragically really - there are so many Daves on this planet and hardly human.
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Of all the animals and birds, I have often wished I could tame/befriend a crow. I love their intelligence
#5
Manatees fart to sink deeper in the water, it's like letting the air out of a balloon.
Kirsten Kerkhof 5 years ago
Now that is a bit of knowledge my 5-year-old nephew will love. Anything to do with farting is the best in his opinion.
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
You should give your nephew more interesting information to expand his curiosity; don't let him get stuck on farting.
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Łukasz Markuszewski 5 years ago
I know the people who think they are manates and try to sink deeper all day.
Chris DiFonso 5 years ago
That's why I fart in the pool! (At least, that's what i tell my family!)
April Pickett 5 years ago
THAT will fascinate a 3 yr old boy, an 8 yr old boy, a 14 yr old boy, a 30 something yr old boy.......
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 5 years ago
Whelp, I'm an older millennial and was highly amused by this fact. I feel like my world has been enriched.
#6
The male emu goes around and collects the eggs that the female lays, painstakingly moves them all to a nest, then sits on them until they hatch. After they hatch he is their only caretaker. The mother isn't involved at all.
Randy Klefbeck 5 years ago
And male seahorses house their young in a pouch until they are ready to go it alone.
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Markus Holstein 5 years ago
"Collects"? Does the female just drop them wherever she happens to stand at the moment?
The researchers found that kids do well in school when their parents read to them, listen to them read aloud, help them learn their letters, numbers, songs, and nursery rhymes.
And when the kids got a bit older, they excelled in school when their parents remained active in their education.
So going with your kid on field trips, participating in the classroom, showing genuine interest in how they’re doing at school, and monitoring their progress with homework and tests all lead to better results in school. In other words, honest, dedicated care and attention pay off.
#7
Most elephants weigh less than a blue whale’s tongue is my favorite
Amsterdude 5 years ago
'Most elephants implies there are those who are in fact heavier than a blue whale's tongue. A trait that will most definitely get you laid around the Serengeti.' - David Attenborough
#8
The word "Arctic" doesn't mean "cold" but rather comes from the Greek word for "bear." Therefore, Arctic means Bear-place and Antarctic means Not-bear-place
Kaisu 5 years ago
So when you're saying a place has arctic conditions, you just mean there's a lot of bears
Don Golosso 5 years ago
No, you just mean you can't bear the low temperature...
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GirlFriday 5 years ago
I had a friend that lived in Antarctica and he said that there was a huge running joke about seeing Polar Bears.
Fred and George Weasley 5 years ago
and that would make sense, as theres bears in the arctic but not the antarctic
#9
A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born.
Nela Rothenbach 5 years ago
Never thought I would say this about an octopus....but this is super cute
#10
The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.
Vanta Black 5 years ago
Yes, because Scotland is completely fictional, too.
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Suzy Lee Ferry 5 years ago
it was believed that the unicorn was the natural enemy of the lion, so in the late 1300s, Scotland adopted the unicorn as a symbol to respond to the symbol adopted by England a 100 years before, the lion. Now they are both symbols of the United Kingdom
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 5 years ago
Because our other national symbol, the "great wild haggis" was just a little bit too weird for some people.
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Randy Klefbeck 5 years ago
Crusaders saw what they thought was an animal that had the legs of a deer, the tail of a lion and the head and body of a horse. Because it was shy and fast they mistakenly thought, seeing it in profile at a distance, that it only had one horn. Take a look at some photos of an Arabian Oryx. It was the European invaders symbol of purity.
Astrid Nineor 5 years ago
I wonder if unicorns and kelpies have a common ancestor? (Kelpies are water horses that lure people to ride them, then frown them)
#11
If you shave a tiger you’ll see striped skin.
Dynein 5 years ago
Fur colors are fun! LOTS of genetic weirdness. E.g. the gene for orange in cats, which turns what would be black/brown to orange, is linked to the X chromosome. Now, one thing about the X chromosome - females (not just cats) actually "shut down" one of the X chromosomes in their cells, though which of the two is down to chance. Males only have one X chromosome to choose from, so it's always "tuned on" (the Y chromosome is a degenerate X chromosome that can't replace the "full" X chromosome - YY causes death long before birth). As a result, male cats that have an X chromosome with the orange gene don't have any black or brown, unless they have a genetic abnormality (like XXY). Female cats where only one X chromosome has that gene can be partly red and partly black/brown. :)
Jeff Christensen 5 years ago
The striped skin is your own, ripped by the claws of the tiger which did NOT want to be shaved. :-)
#12
Blue whales have the loudest voices in the animal kingdom, up to 180 dB. (Jet engine is this loud). They have been known to modulate their calls so as to not hurt the ears of divers. Mothers and calves have also been discovered “whispering” to each other to avoid attracting predators.
Julia Daxenbichler 5 years ago
The calves do. Baby whales are a welcome snack for orcas.
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Courtney Christelle 5 years ago
It's been known that jelly fish hold back when they accidentally sting a human verses when they hunt.
Lululoohoo 5 years ago
as if i didn't already love whales...i have wonderful dreams about swimming with whales..they're the most calming dreams i've ever had and i wake up happy
#13
Hummingbirds offer some cool facts: They're the only bird that can fly backwards or hover and this is due to their wings flapping in a figure 8 pattern. They eat by sticking out their tongues which is covered in barbs. They often hitch rides on bigger birds for migration. They build their nests using gossamer (spider webs) so that the nest will expand with the babies as they grow, they always lay 2 eggs at a time. When they rest, they go into this catatonia called torpor which lowers their heart rate to less than a quarter of beats per minute as when they're active so that they don't starve to death while they sleep.
Cathy Gaines 5 years ago
I really like picturing hummingbirds on other bird's backs... Like a little baby Yoda in a backpack!
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 5 years ago
I've never heard or read anything about hummingbirds hitching rides on larger birds for migration. Wasn't that a myth that has now been debunked. (Mind you it would be freaking adorable to see!)
Ang.stl 5 years ago
Some of these facts are sketchy and are really myths. I read Birds and Blooms religiously for years, and have several years worth to read on my kindle. That would be my source. Link in next comment.
Ang.stl 5 years ago
https://www.birdsandblooms.com/birding/attracting-hummingbirds/hummingbird-myths-revealed/
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ChickyChicky 5 years ago
Also: Only found in the Americas. The Europeans didn't know if they should be classified as birds or insects at first. And if you have a hummingbird feeder in freezing winter conditions, you should do something to keep it from freezing overnight, because when they wake up from torpor they need food immediately. If you decide to bring the feeders inside overnight, and then forget to put them out again after sunrise, you will get dive-bombed and "hummer cussed" by angry birds. Ask me how I know. Thus, wrapping strings of conventional (non-LED) Christmas lights around the feeders is a good way to keep them from freezing at night.
b juno 5 years ago
Hummingbirds do not stay in cold climates so they would never be in 'freezing winter conditions.'
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Lululoohoo 5 years ago
I've had the pleasure of finding a cute little hummingbird nest in our backyard a couple years ago. My eagle-eyed little one saw it somehow and it was so tiny, there were 2 little beaks sticking out of it!!
#14
Elephants think humans are cute like humans think puppies are cute
Jace 5 years ago
Elephants are amazing and smart but... This is ludicrous anthropomorphism and b******t. There is no way to ever validate or invalidate this notion. You can’t know this, even if it were true. Elephants do not appear to have language, let alone anyone having the ability translate and communicate such concepts between the two species.
Julia Daxenbichler 5 years ago
You could sort of prove it with an EEG. Let elephant look at baby elephant, let elephant look at friendly human, then compare.
Load More Replies... Cathy Gaines 5 years ago (edited)
Oh also Cats think humans are just really bad at being cats so they treat us like kittens. My cats are my babies and I'm theirs :)
AnnieLaurie Burke 5 years ago
But puppies really are cute. Humans are evil. Puppies do not tear human babies from their mothers, cage them, enslave and beat them. But humans do that to elephants.
Lin Haraway 5 years ago
Lynette Hart, a professor at the UC Davis school of veterinary medicine and one of the report’s authors, told us: We found that tamed African elephants preferentially and favorably interact (and initiate these interactions) with humans with whom they have a special relationship. We don’t know what elephants “think” about humans, but they appear to value certain relationships they have with certain humans. Elephants nonetheless can be extremely unpredictable in their behaviors to people.
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
.....yes, especially after they were shot at and saw their comrade die.
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#15
Cats can be allergic to people
Flame Phoenix 5 years ago
I know right? how are they supposed to order a human around?
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#16
If you were 66 million light years away from Earth and had a telescope that could see Earth, you could still see the dinosaurs.
Dianna Siever 5 years ago
Because dinosaurs were first to develop space travel and a select squad of space traveling dinosaurs have been found to be 66 million light years away from Earth.
togcrewsc 5 years ago
You can only see things because of light... think about it. If you're in a room with no light, you can't see anything. But if there's light, you can see things. Objects themself don't emit light, they reflect light. That's what colors are. Some objects absorb certain frequency of visible light and don't others. The ones they don't absorb are reflected and that's what we procieve as "colors." If the sun exploded, we wouldn't know for 7 days... (or 7 minutes I forget which... please don't quote me on that) because of how far the sun is from us.
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Georg Rolshoven 5 years ago (edited)
Because it takes light to travel that long. If we observe an exploding star that is, let's say, 30 Million light years away from us, that star exploded 30 Million years ago. Only we see it now, because it takes the light to travel that long.
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Queen Elizabeth can’t sit on the Iron Throne from Game of Thrones. - the ruling monarch can’t sit on a foreign throne, even if it’s fictional.
tuzdayschild 5 years ago
She can't sit on a foreign throne. So as long as it's made in England...
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GirlFriday 5 years ago
Dragons. Dragons would happen. How do you not know about Dragons?
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tuzdayschild 5 years ago (edited)
So they are figments of my imagination? Seems legit, I've had imaginary friends before as well.
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It rains diamonds on Jupiter
Woody 5 years ago
Diamonds 🎵 on Jupiter 🎶 Cos’ it’s rainin’ 🎵 diamonds ooon Juuuupiteeeer 🎵 yeahhhhh 🎶 *crowd claps*🎶🎶🎶 👏 👏👏👏
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Ben Steinberg 5 years ago
That's not a fact, that's a hypothesis...a cool one, but yet to be tested.
Phil Thompson 5 years ago (edited)
And I think of all the planets it has the shortest day in the solar system!
Jasmina Pavlovic 5 years ago
It rains blue glass shards on another planet somewhere, far away ... 🙂
#19
Both boys and girls used to wear dresses. It was only when boys got older they started wearing pants.
Kaisu 5 years ago
One reason for this, at least on the countryside, was that both boys and girls could go to the bathroom whenever they wanted without necessarily needing aid from an adult
Rex the Rat 5 years ago
And I guess when they got older and started working on the fields or on horses it was more convenient to wear pants?
Load More Replies... GirlFriday 5 years ago
In the community where my father was raised, they still do this. They don't put pants on any child until the child is potty trained well enough to use the bathroom unassisted by an adult. Also, they don't have bathrooms in the house because of God so...
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
And girls wore blue and boys wore pink. Pink, btw, comes from the colour of the flower because those had uneven or "pinked" edges.
SilverLining 5 years ago
It was easier to potty train them. There is a picture of one of the US presidents in a dress as a boy. I don't know who
Gretchen Patti 5 years ago
Mt grandpa remembered wearing a dress when he was a tot. His very earliest memory was running naked away from his mom, because she was going to put a green wool dress on him, and he HATED that itchy dress!
#20
A small child could swim through the veins of a blue whale.
Kaisu 5 years ago
That's insane, really gives you a good idea of how massive these things actually are
Carol Taylor 5 years ago
the one in the picture is in a museum in Wellington NZ..l saw it when l was there a couple of years ago..you know, when we were allowed to travel abroad..
Load More Replies... Nora Beckett 5 years ago
There's a replica that you can climb in at the Field Museum in Chicago (that might be where the picture's from, actually). I remember climbing through the tubes when I was little
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
You think so? Wow! Of course it would not survive.
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#21
Wombats poop in cubes.
chaos kitten 5 years ago
hi im australian and i live on a farm in the bush and until i saw this on the internet i legit never noticed and went outside and checked for myself, tis legit
AnimalMetalHeadUK 5 years ago
Their intestines have little ridges on the inside.
Load More Replies... Bettye McKee 5 years ago
How very considerate of them. All neatly packaged like they came out of a trash masher.
#22
Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
Suzy Lee Ferry 5 years ago
and that's how they unconsciously plant millions of trees every years
Randy Klefbeck 5 years ago
I've seen that first hand. They go through about six steps to hide the darn things, to where nobody could find them.
#23
Crows and Ravens can learn to imitate human speech.
#24
Squids have doughnut shaped brains!
Alan Holland 5 years ago
I think squid anatomy is so different because they are extraterrestrials.
#25
There are pink dolphins in the amazon river
Sheila Peixoto 5 years ago
In the Amazon region it's believed that the pink dolphin (boto) turns into a handsome man and seduces young women. A way to spot a pink dolphin in human disguise is that they always wear a hat (to hide their respiratory hole)
Mariane Gomes 5 years ago
Here in Brazil its name is "Boto cor de rosa". There is a legend about them, that the Boto turns in a Man every night and get women pregnant. There are children on the Amazon's region, that do not have a father, that it is said they are Boto's sons.
Pandora Edmundson 5 years ago
In Hong Kong too, but they are being killed by the government for a stupid reclamation project
Mariane Gomes 5 years ago
It is called here in Brazil "Boto cor de rosa". We have a legend about them, it is pretty cool.
#26
If you lift a kangaroos tail of the ground it can't hop (but he will not be happy).
TheExtremeSmell 5 years ago
What if you grab it’s tail and swing it around and let it go. Like say a plumber and a giant turtle.
Terd Fergison 5 years ago
*off of the ground? Can't hop? This whole sentence is a mess. Please try again and use punctuation.
#27
You can hear a lion roar from up to 5 miles away.
Martti Laurson 5 years ago
Good to know. I would have enough time to get my affairs in order before the lion catches me.
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
My father used to live not far from the Bronx Zoo when he was a child. The roaring scared him terribly. And that was just his dad. Kidding, both his dad AND the lions frightened him.
#28
Nutella was invented during WWII, when hazelnuts were mixed into chocolate to extend chocolate rations.
Markus Holstein 5 years ago
It was originally intended to be a chocolate bar, but because of the cheap palm oil used it was too soft so the inventor simply filled it into jars and sold it as a spread
#29
There are more plastic flamingos in the world than real flamingos.
Courtney Christelle 5 years ago
I have a skeletal flamingo I got on Halloween I keep in my yard year round. In the winter time I put a scarf on him.
#30
Before he became president, Abraham Lincoln was a wrestler.
Max L. 5 years ago
Please. Don’t. I saw a photo of him today wearing protective glasses like meaning I protect myself from the most probable infection access, but I can still hurt you. I know one have to speak, but when he speaks people die. Can I send him 5 dollars for a plexiglass panel in front of him ? If that’d be soundproof, it could save lives just like that.
Load More Replies... Death Metal Kitty 5 years ago
ALSO, he grew out his beard because a little girl told him that he would look better with a beard.
Nevi Løvfelt 5 years ago
I would have loved to see ole Abe giving the orange menace a good a*s whooping.
April Pickett 5 years ago
they didn't teach us that in school - it would have made the class a lot more interesting.
Eric Elton 5 years ago
He's actually enshrined in the Wrestling Hall of Fame too! He was that good.
#31
Penguins have a small organ in their skull that desalinates water.
#32
There are more stars in the sky than there are grains of sand on the earth (approximately 10 times more)
KEBI Photography 5 years ago
bUt there are more atoms in one grain of sand than the amount of stars in the universe
#33
hippos excrete a red liquid that acts like a natural sunscreen
Queen_Fisher 5 years ago
The 'sunscreen' that hippos use is actually made from blood, and they ooze it from out of their eyes.
Ivana Junas 5 years ago
It is this substance that gives the illusion that their milk is pink - if it drips into the milk it turns it pink. It's not excreted into the milk though.
#34
If you cut a hole into a net, there are less holes than there were to begin with.
#35
Jelly fish don't have brains.
Astrid Nineor 5 years ago
*googles* It' s also called purple people eater ! Yea, I think I will leave it alone
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Termites in Australia by mass weigh more then humans on earth.
#37
emus won a war in Australia.
#38
Babies don't have kneecaps! They form around two years of age.
#39
The word buffalo eight times in a row is a real sentence. It means that there are buffalo from Buffalo that other buffalo from Buffalo intimidate, and they themselves also go on to intimidate other buffalo who are also from Buffalo.
chaos kitten 5 years ago
reminds me of the story where u can use "and" in a sentence 5 times and-5ece9a...3d06fe.jpg 
Michael Sauerwein 5 years ago (edited)
[Buffalo buffalo] buffalo [Buffalo buffalo] buffalo [Buffalo buffalo].
#40
bananas are berries
Dynein 5 years ago
A lot of fruit/vegetables are actually berries (tomatoes, melons, cucumbers...). A lot of berries are actually not (strawberry, raspberry, blackberry. A lot of nuts aren't nuts, either (coconut is a stone fruit). It's actually pretty straightforward when you know the botanic reasoning and know something about plant morphology. Fruit are "ripe flowers" and are categorized by what tissue of the original flower forms which part of the fruit (though last time I checked, there was still some discussion about what tissue becomes what in the case of the apple, which is a pome fruit). It's like with zoology, really... whales aren't fish, after all. The first impression is often deceiving but it's what colloquial names tend to be based. on.
Martti Laurson 5 years ago (edited)
And strawberries and raspberries are not berries. They are fruits. Also strawberry is the only fruit which has seeds on the outside.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 5 years ago
Strawberries are nuts. Well - their seeds are nuts. The seed on the outside is the nut, the "fruit"-part is actually bait so hungry animals and humans will eat it to make sure their nuts are carried away and can grow in another spot. If you compare a hazelnut with a strawberry, you can see it in the similarities on how the grow (also the little green hat is a giveaway :-) )
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#41
Only girl bees have stingers.
#42
You share 50-65% of DNA with bananas
#43
Most of the mass trees and plants get to grow comes from the carbon dioxide in the air, not from the soil. Trees are built from air.
#44
Great white sharks have been known to run away from killer whales.
TheExtremeSmell 5 years ago
Aren’t killer whales more like dolphins than whales anyways. And dolphins will attack sharks.
#45
Mammoths were still wandering around somewhere whilst the Pyramids were being built
#47
Coconts aren’t nuts at all, they’re fruit.
Martti Laurson 5 years ago
It does not matter if they're nuts or fruit. They still hurt like hell when they hit you in the head
#48
Flamingos get their pink color from pigments in the organisms they eat.
#49
Starfish don't have brains
#50
The average human produces enough saliva over their life to fill 2 swimming pools.
#51
All of the other planets can fit in the space between the Earth and the Moon.
tuzdayschild 5 years ago
Distance from Earth to Moon: 238,900. Planet diameters: Mercury 3031, Venus 7520, Mars 4212, Jupiter 86,881, Saturn 72,367, Uranus 31,518, Neptune 30,599, TOTAL 236,128. If you throw in Pluto, 1476 for old times sake it would tight but it still works.
Bunzilla 5 years ago
With Pluto, you still have 1,296 miles to spare. You could probably throw in a bunch of moons, or another dwarf planet in there.
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Joseph O'Reilly 5 years ago
Okay, I'm usually not one to doubt stuff like this, but that just doesn't seem right. For instance, Jupiter is a biiiiiiiig boi. I'm not sure how far away the moon is but I don't think it's jupiter-level far
#52
Giraffes fall about 1.8 meters when they are born
#53
Baby whales drink milk from their mothers nipples, just like baby humans. Except they do it under water.
Jess-a-men 5 years ago (edited)
Not all mammals have nipples. Platypi sweat milk and the babies lick it off.
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Nicky OldfieldDesciple 5 years ago
All mammals do. Dolphins as well and manatees. And they too do it under water.
#54
Ants don’t have eyelids, so they can’t blink.
Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago
Insects also don't have lungs. They absorb air through their bodies.
#55
Pink used to be a boys color
Anna Kalita 5 years ago
Blue used to be girls' color in majorly Catholic areas, by association with Virgin Mary.
#56
The average person farts over 500,000 times in their life.
Ian Milne 5 years ago
Ha! Not just me then. Why do planes cause that reaction?
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Paul Martin 5 years ago
That has to be a very polite average person. I do much better than that.
Nicky OldfieldDesciple 5 years ago
I am sure my brother had got past that number by the time he was 17.
Mark Aran 5 years ago
No you just leave it there for someone else to walk into ; )
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Platypus don't have stomachs.
#58
Older lobsters guide younger lobsters down migration routes.
#59
A baby spider is called a spiderling.
#60
It's debated what the largest flower on Earth is, but the two leading contenders Amorphophallus titanum, (Titan arum) and the rafflesia, both smell like rotting meat. This vile smell is used to attract flies and other insects that act as pollinators.
Christophe Beunens 5 years ago
the ideal gift for mothers day : the largest flower in the world
togcrewsc 5 years ago
or a perfume made from the largest flower in the world...
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#61
Flamingos eat with their heads upside down.
#62
Mantis shrimp can see more colours than humans can.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 5 years ago
There are far more interesting facts about the mantis shrimp than their colour-vision, I'd say.
Trick Question 5 years ago
For example : A mantis punch arrives with the acceleration of a . 22-caliber bullet, 50 times faster than a human eye can blink. Underwater, the low pressure bubble left in the wake of the punch collapses upon itself in a burst of light and heat, reaching an estimated 8,500 degrees Fahrenheit. (Source: Washington post Science section)
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A tortoise’s shell is joined to its back
#64
By the time an Elk reaches adulthood it has shed more bone from losing its antlers than the bone contained in its entire skeleton!
#65
Cuttlefish can change its texture and shape to anything in it's environment but it actually cant see all that well!
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Martha Meyer 5 years ago
Some awesome and interesting facts but quite a few don't seem easy to understand for a child that young.
togcrewsc 5 years ago
Fun fact: humans are bioluminescent. We can glow in the dark, our eyes aren't strong enough to see it.
Eunice Probert 5 years ago
I need my eyes testing. I read that as "humans are blancmange". Mind you, that explains a lot.
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Baby4 Sleep 5 years ago
I bought an e-book myself to help me get my baby to sleep properly. More information at:https://linktr.ee/toplinks4you
Darlene Turner 5 years ago
what I don't understand is why people just can't have fun and why they feel the need to turn everything into a political bashing downer... Think nice thoughts
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
You gone have fun and one day end up dead. One has to know what's going on in the world, Darlene.
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Da Coconut Nut 5 years ago
If you have more cheese, there will be more holes. More holes mean less cheese. So more cheese is equal to less cheese.
togcrewsc 5 years ago
Dude... chill. Some people don't really care that much, some don't understand it as much. It kind of brought my mood down when I saw you correcting people. Trust me, I'm a smart *ss too. I've lost lots of good friendships because of it. It's not healthy.
Load More Replies... Martha Meyer 5 years ago
Some awesome and interesting facts but quite a few don't seem easy to understand for a child that young.
togcrewsc 5 years ago
Fun fact: humans are bioluminescent. We can glow in the dark, our eyes aren't strong enough to see it.
Eunice Probert 5 years ago
I need my eyes testing. I read that as "humans are blancmange". Mind you, that explains a lot.
Load More Replies... Baby4 Sleep 5 years ago
I bought an e-book myself to help me get my baby to sleep properly. More information at:https://linktr.ee/toplinks4you
Darlene Turner 5 years ago
what I don't understand is why people just can't have fun and why they feel the need to turn everything into a political bashing downer... Think nice thoughts
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
You gone have fun and one day end up dead. One has to know what's going on in the world, Darlene.
Load More Replies... Da Coconut Nut 5 years ago
If you have more cheese, there will be more holes. More holes mean less cheese. So more cheese is equal to less cheese.
togcrewsc 5 years ago
Dude... chill. Some people don't really care that much, some don't understand it as much. It kind of brought my mood down when I saw you correcting people. Trust me, I'm a smart *ss too. I've lost lots of good friendships because of it. It's not healthy.
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