A train station in Japan had plans to close but noticed a student was the only one using it. They decided to close when she graduates from high school

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The number of public libraries in the US is far greater than the number of McDonald's.

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The last time Lichtenstein went to war they sent out 80 men and returned with 81 because the soldiers made a friend.

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- Bob Ross would receive letters every week from his regular viewers. When a regular would stop writing to him, he would call them and make sure they're ok.

- Bob Ross also once got a letter from a colorblind viewer who said they can't paint due to their colorblindness. He then did an episode where he made a painting entirely out of gray colors to prove that anyone can paint.

- Mr. Rogers hand-wrote letters back to everyone who wrote to him.

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The brain of an elephant reacts the same way to seeing a human as a human brain does to seeing a puppy.

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Dogs will modify their play with puppies to let the puppy win. My dog treats our cat like a puppy and will lay on his side only using his front paws to "defend" himself. He usually lets the cat win and then she struts around. It's adorable.

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I'm over 5 years sober. And I never have to drink again.

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There is a tribute sculpture of silver feathers in County Cork, Ireland called "Kindred Spirits".

It commemorates the 1847 donation of $170 (about $4,700 in 2019 dollars) by the Native American Choctaw People to Irish famine relief during the Great Hunger, despite the Choctaw themselves living in hardship and poverty and having recently endured the Trail of Tears.

I love this fact because I'm from Cork in Ireland ☘

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In New Zealand, if you need to call the Emergency Services you can just ring the number you would use in your own country and you will get through... 911/111/999... it is so that in a situation when you are panicking, you dont need to remember a new number to get help.

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more countries probably should do this.

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Cows have best friends and when paired together, their heart rates are significantly lower and they experience less stress overall <3

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The Netherlands sends Canada 20,000 tulip bulbs every year to thank them for their help during WWII.

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In Germany, they have these "frog fences". These fences keep the frogs from crossing the roads and getting run over. At the end of the day somebody comes by and gathers the frogs and helps them cross the road

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First one that comes to mind is something along the lines of this

During the Second World War an American B-17 (I think it was the Flying Fortress) was trying to make her way back home heavily damaged.

A German 109 (fighter) saw it and decided to investigate. The pilot noticed the guns weren’t manned and the insane amount of damage the plane had (a good chuck of fuselage was missing along the side). Flew up beside the bomber and caught eye-contact with the American pilot. He waved.

The German pilot then escorted the bomber back to American territory where the German pilot waved off.




These two pilots met each other after the war and became friends

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Penguins spend a lot of time looking for a pebble to give to another penguin to propose. If the other penguin accepts it, they mate for life.

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In Amsterdam, if someone has no next of kin or close family and dies, then a poet will be asked to read at their funeral.

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Squirrels will adopt abandoned babies

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Blind people smile like everyone else, even though they've never seen anyone else smile. It's just a natural human expression.

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In some countries, they have "wildlife crossings" which are just grassy green bridges running over highways for animals to cross, so they don't have to cross the highway.

I think it's the purest thing in the world

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That when you pet a dog and then they put a paw on you, it's them reciprocating the act. Dogs can't actually preform the "petting" motion so the just put a paw on you.

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Otters hold hands to keep from drifting apart while they float.

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When your cat narrows their eyes at you it’s their way of letting you know they care about you and are happy to see you.

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Red pandas use their tails as blankets to keep themselves warm!

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I've got a pair of cardinals that come to the feeder every day. I noticed that sometimes the male feeds the female. The female quickly shakes her tail feathers and the male responds by picking up a seed in his beak and feeding it to the female. I learned that this is part of their mating behavior. It allows the male to "practice" feeding because he'll have to fill in for the female when she occasionally leaves the nest with the hatchlings in it. Plus it's just adorable.

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Billy Joel never sells front-row seats. Instead, he gives them away for free to fans who can't afford them.

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You know when babies are smiling and laughing, but then they suddenly turn away? They’re having a happiness overload! Basically their brains can’t handle all the excitement they’re experiencing by what they see, so the only remedy is to just not look anymore.

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Mr. Rogers was riding with a chauffeur and the chauffeur mentioned that they were driving by his house. Mr. Rogers asked to come meet his family and spent the evening having dinner and played the piano while everyone sang songs.

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Volvo was going to patent the modern seatbelt, but they revoked the patent in the interest of saving lives

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its illegal to own just one guinea pig in switzerland. you have to own two because they get lonely by themselves

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Gunfire around Dublin’s St Stephen’s Green during the [1916 Rising](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Rising) was stopped every day to allow for the ducks to be fed.

Park keeper James Kearney would enter the Green daily to feed the waterfowl. Every time he did this, the opposing sides of the Irish Citizen Army and the British forces would cease firing to allow him to do so.

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Most humans are inherently good and willing to help you in any way. You've been helped by a stranger more often than you've been hurt. (Online too)

We just remember the bad ones.

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This will probably be buried, I don't think you guys would think it's super wholesome but to me it is. When Ringo left the Beatles during the White Album sessions, the Beatles wrote him a letter, telling him to come back and even calling him the best drummer in the world. And, when he came back, George Harrison decorated his drum set in flowers. I think its sweet because even though tensions were high in the studio, you can see that they cared about each other.

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Children who are deaf, and raised by deaf parents will sign repetitive sounds and words at about the same rate hearing babies acquire language. Deaf babies basically sign goo-goo ga-ga the same way hearing children babble when developing language.

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You know how rain smells good? Rain doesn’t actually smell like anything, but water will amplify scents. The earth smells really good all the time, but we just don’t notice until it gets boosted by the rain.

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While dogs see us as equals cats see us a clumsy deaf babies and thats why they get annoyed at us

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A baby porcupine is called a porcupette.

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Somewhere in the world someone is recovering from depression

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If you have a routine work schedule and dogs, they can tell when you're about to get home by how much your smell has faded in the house.

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You look cute today :)

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Mr. Rogers began announcing that he was feeding the fish in every show because a father and his blind daughter would always tune into the show, and they wrote to him to explain that she would get very concerned that the fish were not fed on the days that he didn't announce it.

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Looking into your dog’s eyes produces the same brain chemicals for you and the dog that mother’s feel when they stare at their babies.

Edit: And I’m pretty sure they’re the only (or one of few) animals we have this connection with.

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My favorite is the Christmas Truce of 1914. Basically during the Christmas Eve and Day German and British soldiers had multiple soccer games against each other in no mans land during the cease fire. Just shows that soldiers are people and not extensions of their countries ideology

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When your body does that weird-falling-thingy when going to sleep it's because your body is not sure if you are dying or falling asleep and gives you an adrenaline boost just in case. Something about it makes me feel great.

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Lab Rats love playing hide and seek with their scientists and “squeal with happiness when found”.

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in a movie when dogs have to act mean but they're so happy that they have to CGI the tales to make them look mean

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