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If you’re a parent who doesn’t always have time for a bedtime story, or your children have memorized Goodnight Moon after hearing it 17 times, allow us to present you with an alternative to a simple pre-sleep story: telling your kids a new fun fact each night!

One parent on Reddit recently asked others to share the best, simple fun facts that can satiate a child’s curiosity at bedtime, and readers did not disappoint. Below, you’ll find all of the best facts that both kiddos and adults can enjoy, so be sure to upvote the info you can’t wait to share with your little ones!

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within "Arctic" means "Bear" "Antarctic" means "No Bear". Not because polar bears live in the arctic and no bears live in the antarctic, but because to get to the arctic you follow the bear constellations, the Big and Little Dipper, and to get to the antarctic you go away from them.

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within 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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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And some other animals as well, Parrots, I think, and possibly rabbits.

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Pets at Home in the UK don't allow the sale of just one unless they know you have others

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They ar so much fun! I used to ahve like 6 of them.....Mr. Jingles was housed trained, he just roamed around and then went back to his cage when he had to go....I miss him a lot

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fum fact #2: because of this there are agancies from which you can adopt a guinea pig as a buddy for yours. When your piggy dies you are allowed to give the buddy piggy back to the agency

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They're very social and isolating them is considered abuse.

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They are herd creatures. One of mine passed; the one left was an elder rescue. I was in hospital, so he had to wait. Bought a lovely, sweet, but shy, chinchilla grey. I don’t think they’ve bonded, but it’s only been a couple of months. The tru-color old man does not like sharing his lettuces!

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When we got a rabbit from the animal shelter, we also had to take two. Rabbits get lonely as well. Our cat on the other hand is perfectly happy on his own; he hates other cats.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You are not allowed to show me piggies because now I want them ( had numerous ones throughout my life )

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would have never thought there was a minimum rodent requirement anywhere.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We’ve always had at least two animals, whether it be two dogs, two cats, a dog and a cat or two fish. Everyone needs friends.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You also can't crop your dog, buy a cropped dog, or even import a cropped dog. (For comparison, in Germany cropping is illegal but importing a cropped dog is not, so people who want it done just do it in one of the neighbouring countries and re-import their dog)

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the UK it is an offence to keep a social species as a solitary without a good reason. This includes rabbits and guinea pigs.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can rent a guinea pig. Say you have two, and then one dies. You can rent a pig to keep your original piggy company, and then when the original dies, you can stop renting the companion.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And in Australia you CANNOT OWN HAMSTERS OH WHY😭

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within A flock of sheep in North Wales had to be quarantined because they'd learnt to lay down and roll over cattle grids. If they'd made contact with other sheep they might have passed the behaviour on, and all the cattle grids in Britain would become ineffective.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It was easier than jumping over fences at night just so humans could fall asleep.

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale!

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It makes sense, they weight upwards of 300,000 pounds/140 kilos and their tongue alone is 20 feet long.

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within The rarest precious jewels in the universe are not diamonds or rubies, they're pearls and amber.. Most precious stones just need minerals and pressure, and that's found everywhere. Amber needs trees, and pearls need oysters, and those are only on earth.

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within Did you know that there are colors that humans can't see? Animals like the mantis shrimp can see a lot more colors than we can, which means that there are "secret colors" that we will never get to know about. Non 4-year-old explanation: the vast majority of humans see things in "channels" of red, green and blue. Some humans are lucky and are born with four "channels", called [tetrachromats]. Mantis shrimp see things in TWELVE different "channels", and can even see ultraviolet and polarized light.

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within Its funny how all of these end up being animal facts.

While sea otters sleep, they hold paws so they don't float away from each other.

Also, sugar is pretty much tasteless to cats. They don't have taste buds for sweetness.

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10 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of our cats, Poppy, loves to lick round the rim of my empty coffee cup. I have it black with sugar. My wife doesn't have sugar and hers doesn't get licked. There's a taste and smell of coffee+sugar that clearly this one at least has the sensors for.

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.

Might be kind of “big thinking” for a 4y but that has always stuck with me.

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within Butterflies taste with their feet. When they land on a flower, they can tell if it's good to eat just by standing on it.

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10 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Ay, that looks like a mighty fine plate of pasta. *Takes off his f*****g shoe and steps on it.* nevermind, I'm good."

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within Birds are dinosaurs.

Whales and dolphins are more closely related to hippos than fish.

A cartoonist named the spikes on the stegosaurus tail.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Thagomizer! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within There are more plastic flamingo lawn ornaments in the US than there are wild flamingos in the entire world.

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within Horses can't throw up and will get sick from tummy aches to potentially need surgery.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And it can be fatal. Also, instead of having multiple stomachs and ruminating, they have a 4ft long chamber in their intestine called the caecum, filled with bacteria that breaks down their roughage. Changes to a horse's diet must be made slowly so the bacterial strains have time to adapt. Lastly, if they don't chew their food properly (say, if they rush their meal or they have bad teeth) they can get 'choke'. Not the same as in humans, it's a function of having a long and horizontal oesophagus. A food bolus can get stuck partway to the stomach and causes a bulge into the trachea (windpipe), severely restricting breathing. The vet will try 'drenching' (forcing liquid down) but it's not always successful. Very traumatic all around. My local yard lost a pony to choke a couple of weeks ago, devastating.

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within 1. Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible!
2. Penguins waddle because their legs are short and their bodies are chubby. It helps them balance on the ice.
3. The sound a giraffe makes is called a "bleat." It's sort of like a sheep's sound but much quieter.
4. A group of flamingos is called a "flamboyance." Isn't that a fun word?
5. Octopuses have three hearts! Two pump blood to the gills, and one pumps blood to the rest of the body.
6. Lightning is like a giant spark of electricity. It happens when tiny ice crystals bump into each other in a cloud.
7. Bees dance to tell other bees where to find yummy flowers. It's like a bee dance party!
8. Cats have a special "meow" just for humans. They learned that we pay attention when they make that sound.
9. Your fingerprints are unique. No one else in the world has the same fingerprints as you!

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within The fruit orange was named before we had named a color orange

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Orange you glad to learn this. (Sorry. It's late and I'm getting flaky.)

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within Did you know that cats aren't technically domesticated? They're still technically wild.

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10 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually, not exactly. The house cat (Felis Silvestris Catus) descended from the African Wild Cat (Felis Silvestris Lybica), and is now a separate species that is considered domesticated. True wild cats cannot be domesticated. That said, house cats (FS Catus) can become feral and do pretty well in the wild (except for my dumb cat who once lost his food bowl while sitting next to it).

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within Tell them "Right now, as you are going to bed at night in the middle of winter, there is another little child somewhere else walking up in the morning where it is summer".

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always used to wonder what it'd be like to have Christmas in the summer on another side of the world.

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within * William I of England was too fat to fit in his coffin.
* Platypus lay eggs and make milk. 
* Cows have 4 stomachs. 
* Lots of fish can feel electricity 
* Cheetahs mew like cats. They can't roar. 
* Red seaweed lives deeper in the sea than green seaweed. 

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Platypuses also have 80 different kinds of neurotoxins, and are amphibious animals

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within The Flemish giant rabbit can grow to be the size of a dog

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My uncle used to breed them in the garden in the Netherlands during WWII. They provided a decent amount of food and certainly supplemented food stolen from the back of Nazi supply trucks.

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within We are all made from star dust.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought I was made of slugs and snails and puppy dogs' tails

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within Wombats poop cubes.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looks just like the wombats that live in the nature reserve behind our fence in Australia.

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within Owls cannot turn their eyes in their sockets, they are fixed in place which is why they do the goofy little head rolls/bobs. Its their method of depth perception.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When owls bob their heads when zeroing on a prey target, their heads move in a triangle shape. It's believed they're using trigonometry to calculate.

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within tell her about those butterflies that have wing patterns that look like eyes that makes animals think they're a predator

a zebra's stripes are as unique as a human's fingerprints.

ok, let's try for a non-animal fact. the planet Venus spins in the opposite direction of other planets

a word spelled the same way forward as it is backwards is called a "palindrome." Mom, dad, and racecar are examples.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Before discovering the planet's reverse rotation, it was called Sunev.

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within When it's Winter in the United States, it's Summer in Australia. When it's Winter in Australia, It's Summer in the United States.

If a month begins on a Sunday, it will have a Friday the 13th.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cue the Bluey episode where they celebrated Christmas by the pool with a barbecue, and my niece and nephew were thoroughly puzzled (we're in Europe).

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within Sloths hair grows from their belly.

Sloths climb down from their tree about once a week to poop.

Kangaroos can pause their pregnancy.

Sharks sink if they stop swimming.

A giraffe has a nerve that goes from under their tongue alllllll the way down their neck down near their heart and then back up.

Only a small part of your eye can detect color. (Cones)

Smell is the strong scent tied to memory because the nerve that manages smell goes directly to the brain instead of having a connection along the way.

The tongue is the strongest muscle in the body by size to weight standards.

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within There’s a SKELETON hiding inside everyone you know!

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I heard that on average there is more than one skeleton inside people

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within While a zebra is smaller than a horse, a zebra can kick with more power than a horse (I think a horse generates about 2000 psi with a kick, while zebras are closer to 3000 psi).

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

However, domesticated horses are often shod, which makes their kicks much more nasty than being kicked by a bare hoof. Speaking from experience...

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within the US government has a federal reserve of 1.4 million lbs of cheese

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What. Oh my gods. Ferb I know what we're gonna do today

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within Sure I have some suited for children.

* not all ladybugs, are ladies.
* locust are just hungry hungry grasshoppers.
* Most of the fruit we eat is bought from other nations during the winter.
* with each mile you go into the earth, the more warm it gets.
* There is no pasta at the center of the earth.
* Many house cats wandering neighborhoods are more likely to visit a neighbor if they use the same detergent as their owners.
* Dogs will wait for you, almost forever.
* Tomatoes, Cassava root, potatoes, corn and supposedly ~~earthworms~~ ~~apple pie~~ Navy bean soup… are all from the American continent.
* Exercise allows you to become smarter and faster.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Apple pie - the first apple trees were taken to the Americas in 1620. The first written recipe for apple pie is in the 1321 book, " Forme of Cury". Apple pie is most definitely not American.

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within Start with a subject and do facts for a week then switch it up. For example
Dinosaur facts for a week, then space, then history, then geography. 

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Then the history of how dinosaurs launched themselves into space in search of more favorable geographical environs. They must be a lot happier there since none bothered to come back.

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If you could drive to outer space in a car like you were driving on the highway, it would only take about an hour to get there!

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within The Los Angeles angels translates to The The angels angels

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And the La Brea tar pits translates to “the the tar tar” pits.

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Famingos get their color from what they eat (shrimp and algae)

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10 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The colour has the same source as the colour of carrots and of leaves in autumn. Chemicals known as carotenoids. The algae that flamingos eat use them as sunscreen.

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If everyone alive played a series of Rock, Paper, Scissors games, where the winners of each round would play eachother until there was only one winner. We would only need to have 33 rounds played for there to be one winner left.

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within You could fit 1 million earths inside the sun

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Related: just because you could do something does not mean you should.

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There were still wooly mammoth roaming the earth at the time the Egyptian pyramids were built

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe that's how they moved those huge stones for building pyramids.

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It takes 8 minutes for light to reach the Earth from the Sun.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So if the sun vanished we could technically sunbathe and get tanned from something that no longer existed.

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within "Pirates" wore eye patches not because they lost an eye but so that one eye would always be accustomed to the dark. For example when they had to go below deck they could swap the eye patch over and instantly see easier.

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10 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is NO historical proof of this. Eye patches on pirates are a part of popular fiction's portrayal, along with peg legs and parrots.

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within Look up the immortal jellyfish!

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not the Immortal Jellyfish, but when the Crossota jellyfish was discovered in the Mariana Trench my daughter insisted on dressing up as one for the school Fete Day (the theme was sealife). Now that was an interesting costume to make - lots of tulle for the bell, LEDs connected to a power pack inside the bell for the gonads (she LOVED telling the staff that's what the lights were) and tubes of LEDs hanging down for the tentacles.

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Elephants paint their toenails red so they can hide in cherry trees.

Works too, nobody has ever seen an elephant in a cherry tree.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's why it is dangerous to walk in a cherry orchard. 'Cos of all the elephants falling out of the trees.

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The first popsicle was invented when a boy accidentally left a cup of soda with a stick in it outside and it froze.

There are more Lego people than real people on Earth.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

LEGO is also the world's largest tire manufacturer.

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A skunk will warn you before it sprays you

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They will stamp their feet when they are upset. It is very cute.

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within Guess what? Sneezes are tiny explosions your nose makes when it's too full of giggles and tickles. So, every time you sneeze, it's just your nose having a little party!

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That salt doesn't melt ice; it stops water from freezing in the first place. My milkshakes do not, in fact, bring all the boys to the yard.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I only recently discovered that 'milkshakes' is in fact a euphemism..

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within It's rare to see a shooting star and you can imagine one but it's even rarer to see one that glows brighter and brighter than disappear. It means it was coming straight at you and burnt down while entering the atmosphere.

You have to be at the right place, right time and looking at the right direction and be able to recognize it. Brings when stars align to a whole new meaning.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you live in an area with little light pollution, it's actually pretty common to see shooting stars.

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Let her sit on the bed with one hand raised as high as she can and the other as low as she can. Stay like that a while, maybe 30 sec? Then compare the hands. The top hand should be visibly paler because of the blood circulation being "a little delayed". At least with my skin color it is very visible.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Put one arm up. Rotate it up and down twice them put both arms Infront of you. The one you twisted should be longer!

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30 Simple Facts About The World To Entertain The Inner Child Within Ice is just really, really cold water.

Steam is just really, really hot water.

Anything about the color wheel and mixing colors.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Annoyingly, "steam" and "water vapour" are exact synonyms and both describe two completely different things. One of them is gaseous water, and the other one is liquid water droplets suspended in air. Also annoyingly, "mold" and "mould" are exact synonyms both describing two completely different things.

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Gestation period for pigs is 3 months, 3 weeks, and 3 days.

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The inside of your forearm is the same length as your foot. Not sure if this applies to 4 year olds. Baby rabbits are called kits/kittens. My then 4 year old taught me that. You can’t lick your own elbow. 

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just measured and IT'S TRUE!!! Also I can't lick my elbow. Who knew?

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You can always see your nose, but your brain hides it from your view unless you look for it.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thanks - I'm going to spend the rest of the evening noticing my nose.

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Mercury is most often the closest planet to Earth.

(on average as the planets orbit around the sun)

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In fact, Mercury is the closest, on average, to every planet in the solar system.

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If I knew what career 4 year old wanted to be. I would give every known fact about that career to make it easier for kid to remember into life the basic concept.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dads tell their kids jokes in case they become clowns or stand-up comics.

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Humans are incapable of creating faces. When you dream people, you have seen them somewhere before.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This makes no sense. Cartoonist imagine faces all the time. For example, why couldn't people dream of a face with more than one nose?

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Crab sticks do not actually contain any crab. And from 1993, manufacturers have been legally obliged to label them ‘crab flavoured sticks’.

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you can actually jump out of an airplane without a parachute, but only once

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why the hell would you tell them this? You may as well tell them there is no such thing as poison, it's a life time supply

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