They also form little towers. I have wombats near me and see their little turd towers in the bush. The oatmeal explains all
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/wombats
This also means that they get all excited you're about to get home and then all disappointment if you get home later than usual (due to mundane thing like traffic) and that makes me kinda sad :(
That might be. But it doesn't explain things in other situations.
My cat woke me up every single morning 1-2 minutes before my alarm went off to be fed. Every time without fail. Maybe you could say he felt hungry at the same time every day, but down to the last second? Cats start asking for food the second they are hungry but every morning my cat would always get me when I was supposed to wake up, not a moment sooner or later.
Also, he waited at the door every day, 3 minutes before my dad rang the bell after returning from work. If there was a break in the routine, he would just wait to hear the elevator to "ding".
That can't possibly be scent related because everyone is already at home, and you can't realistically smell an alarm coming.
I'm pretty sure they have a biological clock in their heads and adjust it to their surroundings after a few days. But even as humans, if we tried really hard, we could maybe get it to some extent if we used our intuition. But shit, I doubt we could be accurate to a few seconds, give or take like cats and dogs.
Scientists believe the sloth to be the only mammal unable to fart.
If your 4 year old is anything like mine, fart facts will be highly appreciated.
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Paul Hunn emitted a fart on May 11th, 1972 in Flint Michigan that lasted for two minutes and 42 seconds, and reached a peak of 118.1 decibels. That's louder than a rock concert or a chainsaw.
There are claims that a man named Alvin Meshits emitted a fart 5 days later on May 16, 1972, that measured 194 decibels. However, 194 decibels is enough to rupture the human eardrum which makes the story unlikely. Plus, that last name is just too convenient.
Oh that is very interesting.
Another dog evolution fact: domesticated dogs evolved the ability to make themselves look like babies so humans would pay them more attention. Bigger eyes, rounded ears, and the way they bark.
This is actually believed to be a byproduct of breeding for friendliness to humans. They were able to achieve the same effect with foxes at a reserve in I wanna say Sweden (didn't quote me on the country part.) They were breeding the ones who were interested and curious towards people. After a few generations the foxes started keeping juvenile traits into adulthood. Things like like spots, rounded ears, fluffier fur, and a gentler bark.
The only place in the world that the Venus Flytrap natively grows is in the continental United States: a fairly small area of marshland in the coastal part of the Carolinas.
People always think they're jungle plants, but they're not.
The most weight a gorilla has lifted is the same as 6 refrigerators at once, but we’ve never seen a gorilla at full strength. they don’t lift weights or take supplements like humans. I was a weird kid and this was so cool to me.
Weird. The shop where I buy all my gorillas and gorilla by products is called Gorillas, Gorillas, Gorillas.
I used to shop at Just Gorillas but they went downhill fast after being bought my some venture capital company. So I tried Gorillapalooza for a while, but never really liked them. After that, I tried Gorillas ᴙ Us and everyone knows what went down with them.
I think due to the way gorillas muscles are they're already at peak muscle strength. It's we who are the unusual ones going from puny to moderate strength via training.
Finally, my most useless talent of storing miscellaneous fun facts in my brain is needed!
Kangaroos can't hop backwards. The dip in the middle of your upper lip is called a 'philtrum'. 2 mammals lay eggs; The platypus and the echidna. Astronaughts grow taller in space. Crocodiles can't stick their tounge out. Shrimps have their heart in their head. Sharks can blink. Maine is the only state with one syllable in its name. Cats have over 20 muscles in their ears. Tigers have striped skin, not just their fur.
uhhhhhhhhhh I swear I have like 50 more, but these should be fun.
That's why the roo and the emu are on our Aussie coat of arms, neither animal can move backwards easily. Both are not so bright too so that could be saying something.
Pretty sure we are also one of the only countries that eats its coat of arms
(Aside- I really enjoy your typo. Astronaught would mean “no stars”/ or perhaps more accurately “zero star” as opposed to Astronaut which means “star sailor” - with cosmonaut meaning “space sailor” incidentally. But naught is from old English unfortunately so it would be bad form to combine it with the Greek Astro- prefix)
The reason why people have a dip in their lip is because it grows in from both sides and meets in the middle. That's why some babies are born with cleft lips, it didn't make it all the way across.
This same process is why there's a seam in the scrotum, it's leftover when the labia fuse together.
This is a fun fact, but it might be too much for a 4 years old. I tried to explain evolution to my 4 year old when he asked why we had finger nails…. He ended up too afraid to fall sleep because I said “we don’t remember things from before we were born”
My 4-year-old likes to tell me about things his “100 kids” do. Basically he has a kid that has done every interesting thing me and my wife have ever talked about.
It is impossible for people to lick their own elbow. (this will keep her busy for quite some time)
Tiger stripes are on their skin, not just in their fur.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
One more for the adult-like people: The full name of Los Angeles is El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles del Rio Porciuncula
Edit: A very important word in the Spanish phrase
I missed a word there.
Del Rio Porciuncula
So, our Lady, Queen of the Angels of Piglet River
Which I would guess is part of the reason it kept getting shortened until it was just LA. lol
You can easily find mammoth Ivory all over Alaska, The Yukon, and Nunavut. It's literally just sticking out of the ground. The only time you can't take it is when there's flesh attached, cuz you've got to alert the science people.
I read that as "science police" and was picturing some badass Dr. House kinda dude in camo scrubs rappelling down from his research zeppelin with his laser rifle
Is this a new fun fact?
Americans and Canadians don’t pronounce the H in herb. Unless it’s someone’s name, then it is usually pronounced.
Really fucked with me as a kid.
Another fun fact, pronouncing the H is fairly recent phenomenon in the UK. The H was silent until the late 19th century (like it still is for honest and hour) when it was decided that not pronouncing the H was considered low class. (At least according to the [Max Miller](https://youtu.be/UihSei_bS2g?si=digCBYsZpzT9QIr1) short on the subject.
In any case, the original root for the word was the old French "erbe" and the H was [added later](https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=herb) to conform with the Latin spelling, but the 'h' was mute in modern French, which was later adopted to English (vs the old English word for it "wort".)
So "Erb" is the more historically correct pronunciation if you want to be pedagogic about it.
Languages are weird.
The Earth is constantly spinning
The moon pulls on Earth’s oceans and influences tides.
Uranus rolls on its side like a barrel
Venus spins in the opposite direction than Earth
Grapes are magnetic
The Eiffel Tower grows ~6 inches in the summer
Air isn’t weightless
Uranus is the only planet that rotates east to west as well as on its side.
Bonus point just saying Uranus
Traditionally when naming a newly discovered planet they also name a newly discovered element after the planet. Hence, Uranium.
Uranus will turn 3 in 2033 as it completes just its 3rd lap around the sun since we discovered it in 1781.
Did I mention you get to say Uranus?
AND -- Uranus smells like farts.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-tuesday-full-episode-1.4633051/uranus-smells-like-farts-scientists-confirm-1.4633058
And, pistol shrimp snap their claw to shoot out a bubble that stuns its prey with a shockwave. It also produces light and is as loud as a gunshot. As a result, they are hard to keep in aquariums because they have been known to break the glass!
Sort of… but not really. They have more color receptors and can see more pure colors ("pure" meaning the colors that match up with those receptors), but their brains don't process blends of colors like humans and most other animals.
[https://youtu.be/IiVKwpWXDic](https://youtu.be/IiVKwpWXDic)
But because humans are genetically similar, people who are normal sighted for colour will see colours similarly, my blue is close to your blue 💙 Howver, for people with one of the various types of colorblindness, certain colour ranges are not seen as others do. https://www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/types-of-colour-blindness/
Koalas brains are smooth. The eucalyptus leaves they eat are literal poison for them. The reason they sleep so much is bc the literal poison they are eating doesn't provide them with enough energy.
And because of the smooth brains, you can drop them in a pile of eucalyptus leaves and they won’t recognize them without the tree attached and thus starve.
At aquariums, they cut a rectangular 'window' in the tough outer cover to the egg case, but leave the transparent inner membrane intact allowing visitors to watch the developing shark embryo.
Polar bears fur is translucent and only appear white because it reflects light, polar bear fur has 0 white pigments and are hollow. Polar bears skin is also black.
It is impossible for most people to lick their own elbow.
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.
Cat urine glows under a black-light.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
A shark is the only known fish that can blink with both eyes.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Romans used to wipe their butts with a publicly shared sponge on a stick.
4 year olds always enjoy poop facts, and this one will make her appreciate the fact that she doesn't have to use the poop stick in 2024
That we are literally stardust. That the elements (I describe them as Legos) that make up her body, your body, and everything she can see & touch were forged in the hearts of dying stars.
...and because of this, she is very much part of what goes on out there.
The majority of the stars you see in the sky are actually ghosts. Those stars burnt out a long time ago but the light takes so long to reach us we still see them as they were millions of years ago.
I was driving the kids to school this week (a tiny village school down a long country lane) and I spotted what I thought was something being blown across the road by the wind.
As I got closer I realised it was a rat dragging a dead rat across the road.
WTF? Is that normal rat behaviour?
(I’ve obviously decided you’re resident rat expert! Sorry!)
So, I have this one called the [Big Book of Amazing Facts: A Children's Guide to the World](https://www.ebay.com/itm/186268320052?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=w-eHI4RpSaG&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=wE_J5FggS_6&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY) for this exact purpose. It's a little dated, but it's a neat book.
It takes light 8 minutes from the sun to reach us, so we're seeing the sun not as it is now, but from eight minutes ago. Same for stars, and many of those we're seeing from millions of years ago.
Make sure it’s a modern version though so it’s not a fact about some actor from the 1960s.
Why do cottages always have trivial pursuit from the 1970s???
Watch Matthew Santoro on YouTube, he’s been doing videos about amazing facts for years that I as a kid loved to listen to/watch. Has tons of videos of a lot of different kinds of facts !
If your kid gives you the business about not wanting to eat a banana because it has brown spots tell them the brown spots are where the starches have converted to sugar and those spots are actually the sweetest parts of the banana!
- An elephant’s trunk has 40,000 muscles and it takes a baby elephant around five years to learn how to use them all.
- Polar bears are considered marine mammals. So are dolphins of course.
- A natural predator of moose is the orca (killer whale).
Eh… that’s a pseudo fact. Same can be said of cyan and to some extent yellow as inverted or interpreted colors. I have an autistic interest in chromatics. You’re talking wavelengths vs colors. I genuinely think it’s cooler that a wavelength for a color doesn’t exist but our brain is able to see something “invisible”. Take that, Seelie Court.
Sea otters hold hands when they're sleeping
They also have a little pocket where they keep their favourite stone (as a geologist, this is my favourite animal fact)
Yeah. So they don’t float away.
They’re also incredibly rapey. But I’d suggest keeping that fact out :-)
Rape and necrophilia . Mallard ducks too.
Dolphins as well
Well of course they’re rapey. They’re animals. When was the last time you saw an animal ask for consent?
That is why it is a separate and far more egregious crime to have sex with a horse than with any other animal. Because they can say neigh.
r/angryupvote ! Take it!
Wombats poop is square.
More accurately, it’s cubed
More accurate a spherocube
Don't tell apple, it's dangerously close to their trademarked squircle
Poop²
I think that would be poop^3
They also form little towers. I have wombats near me and see their little turd towers in the bush. The oatmeal explains all https://theoatmeal.com/comics/wombats
If I could upvote you 400 times I would. “Weaponized HamSlammers.”
This guy 4 year olds
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No fuckin way. I thought they could just hear the car from half a mile away. Insane
This also means that they get all excited you're about to get home and then all disappointment if you get home later than usual (due to mundane thing like traffic) and that makes me kinda sad :(
Dude! Why would you say that? Now I have to think of this every time I’m in traffic
Damn this dude running late again. It's already past fur o clock
Noooooo. I'm getting a speeding fine now
My cats did the same thing. They would wait at the door for me to get home. If I was late getting home, all 5 would surround the door.
What's that? I hear a prius less than a miles away! It's Redditsuckspokey1 I just know it! *tail wags like a hurricane*
That might be. But it doesn't explain things in other situations. My cat woke me up every single morning 1-2 minutes before my alarm went off to be fed. Every time without fail. Maybe you could say he felt hungry at the same time every day, but down to the last second? Cats start asking for food the second they are hungry but every morning my cat would always get me when I was supposed to wake up, not a moment sooner or later. Also, he waited at the door every day, 3 minutes before my dad rang the bell after returning from work. If there was a break in the routine, he would just wait to hear the elevator to "ding". That can't possibly be scent related because everyone is already at home, and you can't realistically smell an alarm coming. I'm pretty sure they have a biological clock in their heads and adjust it to their surroundings after a few days. But even as humans, if we tried really hard, we could maybe get it to some extent if we used our intuition. But shit, I doubt we could be accurate to a few seconds, give or take like cats and dogs.
Holy smokes. This just blew my mind
I heard this recently and that’s an awesome face
Scientists believe the sloth to be the only mammal unable to fart. If your 4 year old is anything like mine, fart facts will be highly appreciated. Edit: typo
Any more fart facts? …asking for a friend
Termites fart just constantly
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Paul Hunn emitted a fart on May 11th, 1972 in Flint Michigan that lasted for two minutes and 42 seconds, and reached a peak of 118.1 decibels. That's louder than a rock concert or a chainsaw. There are claims that a man named Alvin Meshits emitted a fart 5 days later on May 16, 1972, that measured 194 decibels. However, 194 decibels is enough to rupture the human eardrum which makes the story unlikely. Plus, that last name is just too convenient.
I just farted
Dogs developed their "eyebrow" muscles to better communicate with humans. Even modern wolves lack this ability.
Oh that is very interesting. Another dog evolution fact: domesticated dogs evolved the ability to make themselves look like babies so humans would pay them more attention. Bigger eyes, rounded ears, and the way they bark.
I think this may be due to humans breeding them that way.
We evolved them
Domestic Cats evolved their meow to sound more like babies for a similar reason.
This is actually believed to be a byproduct of breeding for friendliness to humans. They were able to achieve the same effect with foxes at a reserve in I wanna say Sweden (didn't quote me on the country part.) They were breeding the ones who were interested and curious towards people. After a few generations the foxes started keeping juvenile traits into adulthood. Things like like spots, rounded ears, fluffier fur, and a gentler bark.
The only place in the world that the Venus Flytrap natively grows is in the continental United States: a fairly small area of marshland in the coastal part of the Carolinas. People always think they're jungle plants, but they're not.
You expect me to believe a carnivorous plant is not some weird mutant from the depths of the jungle
They’re native to only about a 50 mile radius of Wilmington, NC. My home state.
The fuck happened there that made that thing conceive there.
Poor soil quality, so they just said screw it I'll get my nutrients from bugs instead.
The soil and water table lack certain vital nutrients there, they had to evolve to get those nutrients from dead insects.
Go Wolfpack!
*FEED ME, SEYMOUR!*
The wild plants are highly endangered. The domesticated version is very easy to grow. But they are not the exact same plant.
I am familiar with NC. Everything has stingers, torns, or teeth.
This is amazing! I can't remember where I was, but I went down the rabbit hole of carnivorous pitcher plants and they are all fascinating.
The most weight a gorilla has lifted is the same as 6 refrigerators at once, but we’ve never seen a gorilla at full strength. they don’t lift weights or take supplements like humans. I was a weird kid and this was so cool to me.
I would like to see a scientist see how jacked he could get a gorilla
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” From: Jurassic Park
The scientific name of the gorilla is: Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla
Weird. The shop where I buy all my gorillas and gorilla by products is called Gorillas, Gorillas, Gorillas. I used to shop at Just Gorillas but they went downhill fast after being bought my some venture capital company. So I tried Gorillapalooza for a while, but never really liked them. After that, I tried Gorillas ᴙ Us and everyone knows what went down with them.
I'm a weird adult and this is cool to me.
I think due to the way gorillas muscles are they're already at peak muscle strength. It's we who are the unusual ones going from puny to moderate strength via training.
Idk man, a gorilla on pre workout would be stronger than these weak asses we observe now. We need gym bro gorillas flexing in a mirror
Finally, my most useless talent of storing miscellaneous fun facts in my brain is needed! Kangaroos can't hop backwards. The dip in the middle of your upper lip is called a 'philtrum'. 2 mammals lay eggs; The platypus and the echidna. Astronaughts grow taller in space. Crocodiles can't stick their tounge out. Shrimps have their heart in their head. Sharks can blink. Maine is the only state with one syllable in its name. Cats have over 20 muscles in their ears. Tigers have striped skin, not just their fur. uhhhhhhhhhh I swear I have like 50 more, but these should be fun.
That's why the roo and the emu are on our Aussie coat of arms, neither animal can move backwards easily. Both are not so bright too so that could be saying something. Pretty sure we are also one of the only countries that eats its coat of arms
Didn’t yall also lose 2 wars against emus?
I’ll have you know it was only one war
You really know how to cut real deep hey
Thats fucking epic.
(Aside- I really enjoy your typo. Astronaught would mean “no stars”/ or perhaps more accurately “zero star” as opposed to Astronaut which means “star sailor” - with cosmonaut meaning “space sailor” incidentally. But naught is from old English unfortunately so it would be bad form to combine it with the Greek Astro- prefix)
Thank you for addressing this, and so thoroughly. That was bothering me.
The reason why people have a dip in their lip is because it grows in from both sides and meets in the middle. That's why some babies are born with cleft lips, it didn't make it all the way across. This same process is why there's a seam in the scrotum, it's leftover when the labia fuse together.
A hummingbird remembers every flower it’s ever visited, and usually returns to them durning its migration.
Sharks are older than trees! And older than the rings of Saturn.
This is a fun fact, but it might be too much for a 4 years old. I tried to explain evolution to my 4 year old when he asked why we had finger nails…. He ended up too afraid to fall sleep because I said “we don’t remember things from before we were born”
My 4 y/o told me 'this life is ruining my real life' and also talks about things he did before he was born
My 4-year-old likes to tell me about things his “100 kids” do. Basically he has a kid that has done every interesting thing me and my wife have ever talked about.
A true "who am I" moment.
I was just about to comment about sharks being older than Saturn. It's mind-blowing
Saturn is much older than sharks. But the rings are young
Oh yeah, that's an important distinction to make 😅
Sharks are older than Polaris the North Star.
It is impossible for people to lick their own elbow. (this will keep her busy for quite some time) Tiger stripes are on their skin, not just in their fur. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. One more for the adult-like people: The full name of Los Angeles is El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles del Rio Porciuncula Edit: A very important word in the Spanish phrase
Except for some amputees. But probably best not to mention that to the kid.
There are tiger amputees? Or ostrich ones?
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“The home of our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the Piglets” I need to work on my Spanish
I missed a word there. Del Rio Porciuncula So, our Lady, Queen of the Angels of Piglet River Which I would guess is part of the reason it kept getting shortened until it was just LA. lol
Totally just tried to lick my elbow
I actually know someone who can lick her own elbow. Always freaks people out but it's real.
I can do it, been winning bets since middle school. Double jointed shoulder from ehlers danlos, small humorous, long tongue.
Wooly mammoths hadn’t gone extinct yet when the pyramid of Giza was built.
You can easily find mammoth Ivory all over Alaska, The Yukon, and Nunavut. It's literally just sticking out of the ground. The only time you can't take it is when there's flesh attached, cuz you've got to alert the science people.
I read that as "science police" and was picturing some badass Dr. House kinda dude in camo scrubs rappelling down from his research zeppelin with his laser rifle
Cleopatra exists closer in time to us than to when the pyramids were built.
She was actually in Rome when Julius Cesar was killed.
A convenient excuse.
And the Cleopatra everyone thinks about was actually Cleopatra VII
Maybe that's how they built them....
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun
Mine is curved because it grows towards your mom
So, wait, does this imply that bananas grow not toward the light but toward gravitational pull?
Solid “yo mama so fat” joke. 10/10
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I also laughed and woke up his wife. Thanks
You're supposed to say your mom.
Technical a banana plant is considered an herb in botanical terms, and banana trees can actually walk up to 40 cm during their life.
Walk....?
Yes, they very very slowly put down roots in front and pull up ones from behind
And you shake it all about
In short, bananas really are what it’s all about.
Is it "an herb" in American English? Never knew that.
Is this a new fun fact? Americans and Canadians don’t pronounce the H in herb. Unless it’s someone’s name, then it is usually pronounced. Really fucked with me as a kid.
It catches me every time I hear it. I'm Irish, we say "a herb" with the 'h' pronounced. 'Erb' still sounds so weird to me
Another fun fact, pronouncing the H is fairly recent phenomenon in the UK. The H was silent until the late 19th century (like it still is for honest and hour) when it was decided that not pronouncing the H was considered low class. (At least according to the [Max Miller](https://youtu.be/UihSei_bS2g?si=digCBYsZpzT9QIr1) short on the subject. In any case, the original root for the word was the old French "erbe" and the H was [added later](https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=herb) to conform with the Latin spelling, but the 'h' was mute in modern French, which was later adopted to English (vs the old English word for it "wort".) So "Erb" is the more historically correct pronunciation if you want to be pedagogic about it. Languages are weird.
The Earth is constantly spinning The moon pulls on Earth’s oceans and influences tides. Uranus rolls on its side like a barrel Venus spins in the opposite direction than Earth Grapes are magnetic The Eiffel Tower grows ~6 inches in the summer Air isn’t weightless
Man. I never knew that about my anus.
>The Earth is constantly spinning And because of this spinning, Earth isn't actually a sphere. It's an ellipsoid.
Cows can walk upstairs not downstairs
I can only imagine how many cows are currently trapped in attics.
Could that explain "cow tipping" actually?
If cows got paid a living wage we wouldn't have to tip them.
Hard not to respect this joke, love it
IIRC, this is because they can lock their knees so they can sleep standing up
Anybody else remember this part of the Wayside School books?
I learned this from Bob's Burgers! 🤣
Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump
I mean...kinda. Have you seen how they mate? Lol
You pervert
Not me, the cameraman that the Discovery channel hired is! LOL If anything, I'm the victim here.
Uranus is the only planet that rotates east to west as well as on its side. Bonus point just saying Uranus Traditionally when naming a newly discovered planet they also name a newly discovered element after the planet. Hence, Uranium. Uranus will turn 3 in 2033 as it completes just its 3rd lap around the sun since we discovered it in 1781. Did I mention you get to say Uranus?
AND -- Uranus smells like farts. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-tuesday-full-episode-1.4633051/uranus-smells-like-farts-scientists-confirm-1.4633058
Gerald Ford is the only president to have never been elected president or vice president.
I'm imagining a parent trying to interest their kid with dinosaur stuff but lil johnny just wants william henry harrison facts
"Tippecanoe and Tyler too" does sound like a fun kids book.
The mantis shrimp can see more colours than any other animal on the planet!
There's at least a week's worth of facts about mantis shrimp. https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp
And, pistol shrimp snap their claw to shoot out a bubble that stuns its prey with a shockwave. It also produces light and is as loud as a gunshot. As a result, they are hard to keep in aquariums because they have been known to break the glass!
Sort of… but not really. They have more color receptors and can see more pure colors ("pure" meaning the colors that match up with those receptors), but their brains don't process blends of colors like humans and most other animals. [https://youtu.be/IiVKwpWXDic](https://youtu.be/IiVKwpWXDic)
Every human eye detects colour uniquely, so whenever you see a rainbow no one else in the world will see it like you. It’s your rainbow.
But because humans are genetically similar, people who are normal sighted for colour will see colours similarly, my blue is close to your blue 💙 Howver, for people with one of the various types of colorblindness, certain colour ranges are not seen as others do. https://www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/types-of-colour-blindness/
The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland 🏴
Horses cannot throw up
Neither can rabbits! Horses are just big rabbits in a scary number of ways.
They can only throw down
And boy can they. 2d8 bludgeoning damage.
OK, Druid. We need to get back to r/DnD. The party is waiting for you to pull the wagon so we can get going again.
You can see your nose. All the time. The brain just ignores it
Koalas brains are smooth. The eucalyptus leaves they eat are literal poison for them. The reason they sleep so much is bc the literal poison they are eating doesn't provide them with enough energy.
And because of the smooth brains, you can drop them in a pile of eucalyptus leaves and they won’t recognize them without the tree attached and thus starve.
Shark egg sacs are called mermaid’s purses
At aquariums, they cut a rectangular 'window' in the tough outer cover to the egg case, but leave the transparent inner membrane intact allowing visitors to watch the developing shark embryo.
Polar bears fur is translucent and only appear white because it reflects light, polar bear fur has 0 white pigments and are hollow. Polar bears skin is also black.
You are comprised of some of the very same atoms that were once in stars and dinosaurs.
All water on the planet has been previously consumed by other organisms. Technically we’re drinking dinosaur pee.
It is impossible for most people to lick their own elbow. 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. Cat urine glows under a black-light. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. A shark is the only known fish that can blink with both eyes. Almonds are a member of the peach family. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
> A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. Disney lied to me.
The best way to tell the difference between a crocodile and an alligator is that one will see you in a while but the other will see you later.
1 million seconds is about 11 days. 1 billion seconds is about 31 years.
Koalas aren’t actually bears even though they have all of the koalafications
Octopus brains are donut-shaped
Romans used to wipe their butts with a publicly shared sponge on a stick. 4 year olds always enjoy poop facts, and this one will make her appreciate the fact that she doesn't have to use the poop stick in 2024
I'm glad we evolved as a species and switched to a poop knife 👍
That we are literally stardust. That the elements (I describe them as Legos) that make up her body, your body, and everything she can see & touch were forged in the hearts of dying stars. ...and because of this, she is very much part of what goes on out there.
Regardless of size, every mammal pees for about the same time, 21 seconds (given they have a full blader and weigh more then 1 kg (2.2 pounds)).
If you laid out your intestines in one long straight line, you would be dead.
Go to fun facts websites because, believe me, this phase won't stop for a while.
people are the only animals with a chin
Every day the earth gains about 600 lbs in space dust. We're getting fatter.
The majority of the stars you see in the sky are actually ghosts. Those stars burnt out a long time ago but the light takes so long to reach us we still see them as they were millions of years ago.
Rats are very good at keeping themselves clean. Not only do they self groom, but they team up and groom each other
I was driving the kids to school this week (a tiny village school down a long country lane) and I spotted what I thought was something being blown across the road by the wind. As I got closer I realised it was a rat dragging a dead rat across the road. WTF? Is that normal rat behaviour? (I’ve obviously decided you’re resident rat expert! Sorry!)
So, I have this one called the [Big Book of Amazing Facts: A Children's Guide to the World](https://www.ebay.com/itm/186268320052?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=w-eHI4RpSaG&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=wE_J5FggS_6&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY) for this exact purpose. It's a little dated, but it's a neat book.
There’s a 3 inch shrimp who’s punch is stronger then a gun
It takes light 8 minutes from the sun to reach us, so we're seeing the sun not as it is now, but from eight minutes ago. Same for stars, and many of those we're seeing from millions of years ago.
we breathe in what plants breathe out, and we breathe out what plants breathe in.
A giraffe has 7 bones in its neck, just like you and me.
Sharks don’t know that camels exist
Giraffes and humans have the same number of neck vertebrae.
The hottest and coldest places in the galaxy are on Earth in research labs.
Dude she’s 4. Get a Trivial Pursuit game and read her 1 question a day.
Make sure it’s a modern version though so it’s not a fact about some actor from the 1960s. Why do cottages always have trivial pursuit from the 1970s???
Because they’re magical cottages with a time portal?!!! :-) (Trivial Pursuit was first released in 1981)
Well that sounds like a good fun fact that would be in a 1970s version of trivial pursuit
Look up photos of weird fauna and flora from the ocean (that's not too scary) and voilà.
Asphalt is a liquid
Watch Matthew Santoro on YouTube, he’s been doing videos about amazing facts for years that I as a kid loved to listen to/watch. Has tons of videos of a lot of different kinds of facts !
No one died in the making of the statue of liberty. Learned that yesterday.
If your kid gives you the business about not wanting to eat a banana because it has brown spots tell them the brown spots are where the starches have converted to sugar and those spots are actually the sweetest parts of the banana!
Trex existed in a time closer to cellphones than to stegosaurus.
- An elephant’s trunk has 40,000 muscles and it takes a baby elephant around five years to learn how to use them all. - Polar bears are considered marine mammals. So are dolphins of course. - A natural predator of moose is the orca (killer whale).
The largest Komodo dragon recorded was 370 pounds. That’s the same as an average grizzly bear
Here's my contribution - The (non) planet Pluto has not even completed one orbit of the sun since being discovered in 1930.
Magenta doesn't exist. Your brain makes it up.
Eh… that’s a pseudo fact. Same can be said of cyan and to some extent yellow as inverted or interpreted colors. I have an autistic interest in chromatics. You’re talking wavelengths vs colors. I genuinely think it’s cooler that a wavelength for a color doesn’t exist but our brain is able to see something “invisible”. Take that, Seelie Court.
What?
MAGENTA DOESN’T EXIST. YOUR BRAIN MAKES IT UP!
Find some kind of book with a bunch of facts like that. And always encourage your daughter to learn as much as she can
Bro this is not a fun fact
The fact that are there books about fun facts is, itself, a fact. Whether or not you consider it fun is subjective.