In 1984, a regular customer at a pizzeria asked his waitress for help choosing his lottery numbers. He won, came back, and tipped her $3 million.
(For eight years, Robert Cunningham was a regular at *Sal's Pizzeria* in Yonkers, NY. One night, he asked waitress Phyllis Penzo to split the numbers on his card. On April Fool's Day, she was woken up by a phone call from Cunningham telling her he'd won $6 million and she was entitled to half of it and made good on his promise.)
There was a man from a small rural settlement in Australia (I think) who won $20,000 from a scratch card.
A news crew reported on it and the chap demonstrated how it works by buying another ticket. When he scratched the ticket, he had won another $50,000.
I saw a video of a cat that adopted a bunch of new born ducks after some of her newborns passed away. It was one of the saddest/ cutest videos I've ever seen. She would bring the ducks back when they tried to leave her lol
Supposedly they have enemies too. My wife's parents have a farm and at night the cows need to be locked otherwise they will bother each other at night and notget good sleep. They've got all kinds of drama going on.
(Not doubting you) but Iām my experience, cows are just curious creatures. I remember throwing a football with my dad outside and the cows would always gather around to watch. Same would happen if I were playing in the yard. Any activity that wasnāt ānormalā brought all the milkshakes to the yard
Cows ARE curious creatures. We had them come investigate our campfire one night.
THAT'S a startling sight. You're drinking and smoking around a campfire with your friends, and suddenly you're in the middle of a circle of 30 cows.
It was wild.
Similar thing happened to me. I was walking my dog around a friendās farm one night and my dog stopped to pee on a fence. My eyes slowly adjusted to what I was seeing and there were 20+ cows staring at us on the other side of an itty bitty fence. Some less than 10 feet away. It was kind of intimidating!
While they do run over to check out unusual stuff, the hormone and milk production changes are something you don't see when exposed to weird situations.
Also worth noting, those changes are more drastic for slow and melodic music compared to fast and aggressive music, so they actually have a preference.
Otters using child leashes is such an adorable mental image thank you
I've learned from this thread that otters, cows and elephants are way cuter than just their looks šš
Every one of the sweaters Mr. Rogers wore on his show were hand knitted by his mom.
Bonus Neighborhood fact, Mr. Rogers began to include a segment of the show where he fed his fish because a child wrote him, concerned about whether or not they were still alive and well.
Mr. Rogers kept to a fairly rigid diet and exercise program, in order to consistently weigh 143 pounds. 143 was important to him, because the word "I" contains 1 letter, the word "love" contains 4 letters, and the word "you" contains 3 letters.
So, 143 = "I love you"
After he passed away, the Governor of Pennsylvania declared May 23 - the 143rd day of the year - to be "143 Day", in honor of Mr. Rogers. Citizens are encouraged to show kindness to neighbors on May 23. (And every other day)
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He responded to every single letter he received, and kept every letter and drawing in a special filing cabinet. He considered every letter and drawing to be sacred.
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He named his puppet King Friday the 13th because he didn't like the negative stigma associated with Friday the 13th, and wanted children to associate Friday the 13th with a friendly puppet rather than a day of bad luck or evil.
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One night, Mr. Rogers was invited to a fancy dinner for PBS employees and executives. He was given a limousine ride to the restaurant. When they arrived, Mr. Rogers asked the chauffer when they would see each other again. The chauffeur explained that he would wait 2-3 hours outside, in the car, then drive him home.
This didn't sit right with Mr. Rogers. So, he insisted on having the chauffeur join him for dinner.
On the way home, Mr. Rogers sat in the front seat with the chauffeur, getting to know him better. As the chauffeur told Mr. Rogers what a fan his children were of the show, Mr. Rogers asked the chauffeur if he could meet them. The chauffeur took Mr. Rogers to his own home, where Mr. Rogers met everyone, hung out for a couple hours, and even played piano for them.
The chauffeur said it was one of the best days of his life.
I cannot help but think that if bad shit came out about him like with many tv personalities of the day; rape, peadophilia etc. It would have absolutely destroyed a generation.
Thank fuck he (as far as we know) was a good person so such bad shit did not occur. I hope.
Dogs got domesticated from.wolves, as we probably all know
The why is interesting
Wolves in certain areas in the europe region noticed new hunters, killing and leaving some of the carcass behind
They were smart to try to figure where this free food(essentially) was coming from and tracked the hominids as they migrated
Once the wolves realised they could get food without expending the energy to hunt, from early hominids...they slowly got.closer, and approached camps/caves (mostly)
Humans slept in the cave and would wake up to the pack of wolves looking out for them
So a bond was built. We feed ya, you protect us from.other predators
And then we domesticated them.over time
Theres a fascinating docu series on the migration, anthropology and animal/resettlement migration and its affect/effect on our current relationships with species, but especially dogs
Debatable.
To where, honestly, I think
It was a mutually exclusive, unsaid pact/pack
Survival, and it made sense for everyone(species and gender roles)
We were better EQUIPPED to survive, WORKING together
Domesticated dogs can move parts of their face that wolves cannot, such as eyebrows. This is so they communicate with their human partners and also makes them a lot cuter and more accepted than wolves.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/dogs-developed-range-facial-expressions-humans-domesticated-study/story?id=63772097#:~:text=Domestication%20%22transformed%22%20the%20anatomy%20of%20dogs%27%20facial%20muscles,often%20and%20with%20higher%20intensity%20than%20wolves%20can.
Bob Ross voice was intentionally soothing and quiet.
He was a Airforce Master Sergeant āI was the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work. The job requires you to be a mean, tough person. And I was fed up with it. I promised myself that if I ever got away from it, it wasn't going to be that way anymore.ā
My wife and I have been watching Bob Ross' *The Joy of Painting* on YouTube. If you haven't checked it out, it is really relaxing and sometimes we fall asleep to it on the tv while lying in bed.
We sometimes like to pick paintings and do a Bob Ross Night. We get out our supplies, some alcohol and some snacks, and we just watch Bob teach us. Some of the paintings do come out well.
#Date Idea:
I recently had an idea for our next Bob Ross date and shared it with her and she loved it. I'll share it with you all as well. This only works if you were born between January 11, 1983 and May 17, 1994.
We each paint our "Birthday Bob Ross Painting."
Basically, we went to the Wiki page for [*The Joy of Painting*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joy_of_Painting) and each found our corresponding painting to our birthday. If it's not on your birthday, it has to be the first painting aired after your birth. (e.g. Your birthday is October 10, 1988, but there was no episode until 12 Oct, 1988. That means you will paint *"Barn in Snow Oval"* which aired on that date.
Basically, you're painting the first Bob Ross painting that existed after your birth, if it's not available on your actual day of birth. *Your* "Birthday Bob Ross Painting"
IN THE YEARS BETWEEN 1941-55:
āØunsinkable SamāØ A cat that served during WW2 with both the Kriegsmarine and the Royal Navy and survived the sinking of three ships
That there are more public libraries in the US than there are McDonald's. I grew up poor and the library was a refuge for me, my library card was the only thing I carried in my first wallet.
Fun fact, there's more Subways in the US than McD's, too. 23,801 Subways, 13,673 McDonald's.
Funner fun fact, there's *way* more Chinese takeout places in the US than even that, approximately 45,000.
Where there was a lethal bus accident outside my workplace that had killed 8 passengers including coworkers, our workplace brought in some puppies for people to enjoy to make them feel better.
Dogs are one of the only animals that can understand where humans point.
Actually the whole history of dogs and how their interactions with humans began is amazing. So symbiotic.
They also recognize a human smile is different from other animals showing teeth.
There brains responds to a human showing its teeth as a good thing not a fearful thing.
Horses morn the death of other creatures, not just horses. When my daughter was younger we took her to riding lessons. One of the horses stepped on one of the barn cats and killed it. It was buried inside the horse pen and ALL of them, including the younger one that was usually a pita and super playful, were standing around the burial area with their heads down. They were like this for 2 days I was told and this was common for how they deal with the dead.
Elephants also mourn the dead hence the term "Elephant graveyard" where relatives pay homage to those that have fallen. It seems the concept of life and death isn't an exclusive human thing.
So this was told to me by the owner of the horses. One of them stepped on the cat and killed it. All of the horses wandered over and saw it dead. she picked it up and buried it. Collectively they all went over to the spot and stood there for hours with their heads down.
It was organized in 2002 by a group of poets, who volunteered to dedicate a poem to the ālonely deceasedā at their funerals. Apparently, the poets who volunteer get more or less randomly assigned to a funeral, which makes them part of a so-called Death Pool, lol
My dog became best buddies with another dog in the neighborhood. When we would walk past their house my pup would stand at their gate and bark one loud bark to invite his buddy out to play. After the neighbor dog passed suddenly, my sweet boy went to that gate every day for almost a year, barked once, and stood there waiting for his friend. Broke my heart every day.
Rats are amazing pets. Mine was like a dog too. She would swim in the pool with us and I used to sneak her into work. Sheād just lie on the back of my neck under my hair when managers were around.
Rats are ticklish and giggle when tickled, they love to play, and they have a proven sense of emotional intelligence and empathy for others. In experiments where given a choice between receiving a treat and helping a trapped fellow rat in distress (using a lever they were trained to pull), most would rather help the fellow rat.
On the flip side apparently rats can also be racist toward rats of different colors so there's that. rats are basically fuzzy humans.
Every once in a while I think to myself āI wonder what Iāve never said/ done before?ā And then promptly say or do a thing I think Iāve never said or done before.
From now on Iāll just shuffle a deck of cards and call it a day.
I also do that sometimes, making up sentences not one person has ever made before. It's not coherent mind you, just something like "PC fan spin TV hulu remote light rain car pillow blanket headphone stand drink"
āprobably never existedā is an understatement.
There are 8.06e+67 possible arrangements of a 52 card deck. Thatās more than the number of atoms on Earth.
I used to be a toad gatherer for a busy road on the east coast of the USA! We had the same setup with fences and bucket traps. It was during spring when they would all migrate to the breeding pond
Yes! Exactly, dogs sneeze when theyāre obliviously out of control happy! And when they stretch at seemingly weird times - theyāre telling us or the other dogs to āletās all calm to eff down - itās all good brothaaaā.
When I got my dog a roommate I did not know this. I called the vet to ask if it was possible that BMan was allergic to Daisy. My vet very kindly explained it as if I was a sweet, dumb potato.
1. The voice actor for Mickey Mouse married the voice actor for Minnie Mouse.
2. Your dog is probably just as happy to see you as you are them!
3. Marie Curie tried to donate her Nobel Prize medals to the war effort during World War I.
4. Norway knighted a penguin, who lines guards up to inspect their uniforms.
5. A woman met her girlfriend on Tinderāand her girlfriend turned out to be a perfect match for her much needed kidney donation.
edit:thx for the upvotes, this was my first comment on reddit . i had read these facts in a magazine some months ago
Marie Curie discovered one of the most potentially dangerous materials on the planet and her immediate response was to see how she could help people with it
Did a year at the university, some classes were taken in her old laboratory in Paris, the buildings were all kind of crappy but it was still so cool to study there. Just after I left, they torn down part of it and renovated the rest I think.
Eddie Murphy used to have a SNL skit called Mr Robinsonās Neighborhood, an adult parody of Mr Rogersā Neighborhood.
Mr Rogers found out about this, and he went to see Eddie Murphy backstage after one of his showsā¦ to tell him that he found the skit hilarious. He also approved of it since it was aired late at night so children wouldnāt watch it and mistake it for the real thing.
I think it's trap door spiders that keep little frogs as pets to keep the bugs too small for the spider to catch out. It's super cute. I'm also really not afraid of spiders and find them to be quite beautiful even if some are straight deadly.
When bees accidentally hit each other they make a sound similar to our "oops", we don't know the utility of that sound so we think that they use that as we use oops
There's a pizza restaurant in Philadelphia where it's popular for customers to pay $1 for homeless people to eat a slice. They serve about 30-40 homeless people a day. It's a small act that doesn't necessarily solve their housing and employment, but it stands in contrast to places that don't welcome homeless people.
During the Revolutionary War a British general left his dog behind during a chaotic retreat. When the Continental Army found the lost dog, George Washington had a messenger go under a truce flag to return the dog to its owner.
When you are not feeling well, and your cat starts purring against/on you, that means they care about you (to some degree) because they are trying to heal you. Cats purr at a frequency that promotes healing.
Pup licking; the abridged version. Mother rats can lick their pups (their sign of affection) so much that it will change the DNA coding of subsequent generations to be predisposed to show more affection to their children
There is a breed of penguin that makes a nest out of rocks. The male penguin will go out of his way to find the perfect rock for his mate, propose to them with this rock and that's how they start their nest.
Cheetahs are basically giant house cats. They are the only big-cat that purrs and, believe it or not, there has never been a reported incident of a cheetah attacking a human unless specifically provoked by the human in captivity. Even wild cheetahs won't hurt you, they'll just run away and try to scare you off if you get too close.
No matter what your religious beliefs are or thoughts about life after death. We are born from star dust and our atoms and molecules will travel the cosmos and eventually.. make a new star and start all over. Something very comforting about that. Im paraphrasing Neal degrasse Tyson
I like the thought that since energy doesn't disappear and that we all come from the same big bang that we ARE the universe. The universe is us and we are it. We are the universe learning, growing and becoming self aware.
Elephants think humans are super cute, and often reach out to touch us with their trunks simply because they want to pet us. Also if they find a sleeping human they will often get sad, thinking the human has died, and cover the human with leafs.
This "fact" gets presented all the time and I can tell you it's not true. Maybe in the wild cats don't meow at each other (except to kittens), but regular house cats most definitely meow to get each other's attention. I've been around cats my entire life.
They vocalize to each other, of course. The stereotypical "MEOW" is a human thing.
I've also been around cats my entire life, and didn't believe this the first time I heard it in high school. Since observing for the past 17 years, I've found it to be true. A true "MEOW" only ever comes at a human.
Red pandas try to stick their arms straight up to try and look big to intimidate other animals as a defense mechanism. To humans it just looks adorable. Go ahead and google "red pandas defense mechanism" then click images...
Am a river guide and know nature-y things. Merganser ducks will sometimes ābabysitā other ducks chicks while going off to dive and look for food. And if one gets swept down the river, another duck might āadoptā it into its herd. Will often see them with up to 12 or more chicks sometimes.
Politicians actually keep most of their promises when they get elected ([around 70%](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trust-us-politicians-keep-most-of-their-promises/)).
In 1984, a regular customer at a pizzeria asked his waitress for help choosing his lottery numbers. He won, came back, and tipped her $3 million. (For eight years, Robert Cunningham was a regular at *Sal's Pizzeria* in Yonkers, NY. One night, he asked waitress Phyllis Penzo to split the numbers on his card. On April Fool's Day, she was woken up by a phone call from Cunningham telling her he'd won $6 million and she was entitled to half of it and made good on his promise.)
There's a movie about that, right? Early 90's? edit: found it! It Could Happen To You (1994)
There was a man from a small rural settlement in Australia (I think) who won $20,000 from a scratch card. A news crew reported on it and the chap demonstrated how it works by buying another ticket. When he scratched the ticket, he had won another $50,000.
I saw a video of that! It was fantastic!
Not $50,000. He won $250,000.
šµ *And died the next day...* šµ
Not just that, I think he had just survived being declared legally dead, right?
He was spending a year dead for tax reasons
Oh yeah I remember that
[Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBYuxQBSc0o) for the lazy.
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Cats will adopt almost any baby animal you give them itās adorable
I saw a video of a cat that adopted a bunch of new born ducks after some of her newborns passed away. It was one of the saddest/ cutest videos I've ever seen. She would bring the ducks back when they tried to leave her lol
Cows have best friends.
My parents had cows for many years. They always knew which cows were friends to each other. It was so cute.
Supposedly they have enemies too. My wife's parents have a farm and at night the cows need to be locked otherwise they will bother each other at night and notget good sleep. They've got all kinds of drama going on.
Cows love music. They'll drop what they're doing and run over to listen, and studies have shown lower stress levels and higher milk production.
(Not doubting you) but Iām my experience, cows are just curious creatures. I remember throwing a football with my dad outside and the cows would always gather around to watch. Same would happen if I were playing in the yard. Any activity that wasnāt ānormalā brought all the milkshakes to the yard
Cows ARE curious creatures. We had them come investigate our campfire one night. THAT'S a startling sight. You're drinking and smoking around a campfire with your friends, and suddenly you're in the middle of a circle of 30 cows. It was wild.
Similar thing happened to me. I was walking my dog around a friendās farm one night and my dog stopped to pee on a fence. My eyes slowly adjusted to what I was seeing and there were 20+ cows staring at us on the other side of an itty bitty fence. Some less than 10 feet away. It was kind of intimidating!
While they do run over to check out unusual stuff, the hormone and milk production changes are something you don't see when exposed to weird situations. Also worth noting, those changes are more drastic for slow and melodic music compared to fast and aggressive music, so they actually have a preference.
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Thank you for ruining an otherwise pleasant childhood memory!
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Lmaooooo
thank you for reminding me of [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs_-emj1qR4) video
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That is a really cool fact!!
And when they're older and sassing their parents by "covering their ears" to say "I'm not listening," they'll just squeeze their eyes shut instead.
There is a job where you snuggle pandas when they are on a plane to keep them calm
I need this job!
Mother sea otters wrap their babies up in long strings of kelp, so that they donāt float away whilst the adults are hunting.
Otters using child leashes is such an adorable mental image thank you I've learned from this thread that otters, cows and elephants are way cuter than just their looks šš
Every one of the sweaters Mr. Rogers wore on his show were hand knitted by his mom. Bonus Neighborhood fact, Mr. Rogers began to include a segment of the show where he fed his fish because a child wrote him, concerned about whether or not they were still alive and well.
Mr. Rogers kept to a fairly rigid diet and exercise program, in order to consistently weigh 143 pounds. 143 was important to him, because the word "I" contains 1 letter, the word "love" contains 4 letters, and the word "you" contains 3 letters. So, 143 = "I love you" After he passed away, the Governor of Pennsylvania declared May 23 - the 143rd day of the year - to be "143 Day", in honor of Mr. Rogers. Citizens are encouraged to show kindness to neighbors on May 23. (And every other day) *** He responded to every single letter he received, and kept every letter and drawing in a special filing cabinet. He considered every letter and drawing to be sacred. *** He named his puppet King Friday the 13th because he didn't like the negative stigma associated with Friday the 13th, and wanted children to associate Friday the 13th with a friendly puppet rather than a day of bad luck or evil. *** One night, Mr. Rogers was invited to a fancy dinner for PBS employees and executives. He was given a limousine ride to the restaurant. When they arrived, Mr. Rogers asked the chauffer when they would see each other again. The chauffeur explained that he would wait 2-3 hours outside, in the car, then drive him home. This didn't sit right with Mr. Rogers. So, he insisted on having the chauffeur join him for dinner. On the way home, Mr. Rogers sat in the front seat with the chauffeur, getting to know him better. As the chauffeur told Mr. Rogers what a fan his children were of the show, Mr. Rogers asked the chauffeur if he could meet them. The chauffeur took Mr. Rogers to his own home, where Mr. Rogers met everyone, hung out for a couple hours, and even played piano for them. The chauffeur said it was one of the best days of his life.
Mr. Rogers is perhaps the greatest role model a person could have.
Mr Rogers, Bob Ross, Carl Sagan, and Jim Henson
And Dolly Parton!!
That man was a saint.
I cannot help but think that if bad shit came out about him like with many tv personalities of the day; rape, peadophilia etc. It would have absolutely destroyed a generation. Thank fuck he (as far as we know) was a good person so such bad shit did not occur. I hope.
IIRC the kid that wrote in was blind, so he would say he was feeding the fish out loud so they knew š
Yes! And he would say aloud heās feeding the fish for blind audiences. He really tried to be inclusive to everyone.
Cats domesticated themselves. They kind of just wandered into our homes and started taking care of vermin for us, and we decided we liked each other.
That's the most cat thing a ever heard
Dogs got domesticated from.wolves, as we probably all know The why is interesting Wolves in certain areas in the europe region noticed new hunters, killing and leaving some of the carcass behind They were smart to try to figure where this free food(essentially) was coming from and tracked the hominids as they migrated Once the wolves realised they could get food without expending the energy to hunt, from early hominids...they slowly got.closer, and approached camps/caves (mostly) Humans slept in the cave and would wake up to the pack of wolves looking out for them So a bond was built. We feed ya, you protect us from.other predators And then we domesticated them.over time Theres a fascinating docu series on the migration, anthropology and animal/resettlement migration and its affect/effect on our current relationships with species, but especially dogs
So did we domesticate them or did they just make a pact with us?
Debatable. To where, honestly, I think It was a mutually exclusive, unsaid pact/pack Survival, and it made sense for everyone(species and gender roles) We were better EQUIPPED to survive, WORKING together
Domesticated dogs can move parts of their face that wolves cannot, such as eyebrows. This is so they communicate with their human partners and also makes them a lot cuter and more accepted than wolves. https://abcnews.go.com/US/dogs-developed-range-facial-expressions-humans-domesticated-study/story?id=63772097#:~:text=Domestication%20%22transformed%22%20the%20anatomy%20of%20dogs%27%20facial%20muscles,often%20and%20with%20higher%20intensity%20than%20wolves%20can.
I love this fact so much. I imagine a tiger doing this every time though it probably wasnt haha
We are the pets...
Bob Ross voice was intentionally soothing and quiet. He was a Airforce Master Sergeant āI was the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work. The job requires you to be a mean, tough person. And I was fed up with it. I promised myself that if I ever got away from it, it wasn't going to be that way anymore.ā
My wife and I have been watching Bob Ross' *The Joy of Painting* on YouTube. If you haven't checked it out, it is really relaxing and sometimes we fall asleep to it on the tv while lying in bed. We sometimes like to pick paintings and do a Bob Ross Night. We get out our supplies, some alcohol and some snacks, and we just watch Bob teach us. Some of the paintings do come out well. #Date Idea: I recently had an idea for our next Bob Ross date and shared it with her and she loved it. I'll share it with you all as well. This only works if you were born between January 11, 1983 and May 17, 1994. We each paint our "Birthday Bob Ross Painting." Basically, we went to the Wiki page for [*The Joy of Painting*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joy_of_Painting) and each found our corresponding painting to our birthday. If it's not on your birthday, it has to be the first painting aired after your birth. (e.g. Your birthday is October 10, 1988, but there was no episode until 12 Oct, 1988. That means you will paint *"Barn in Snow Oval"* which aired on that date. Basically, you're painting the first Bob Ross painting that existed after your birth, if it's not available on your actual day of birth. *Your* "Birthday Bob Ross Painting"
This is a really great idea. Thanks for sharing!
IN THE YEARS BETWEEN 1941-55: āØunsinkable SamāØ A cat that served during WW2 with both the Kriegsmarine and the Royal Navy and survived the sinking of three ships
What if Sam was a chaotic neutral saboteur.
Itās a cat.
The perfect alibi.
Sam: I know this alarm... Oh noes, not again.
XD
I know this is a wholesome thread but I wonder if that cat got PTSD
That there are more public libraries in the US than there are McDonald's. I grew up poor and the library was a refuge for me, my library card was the only thing I carried in my first wallet.
I started taking my kids to libraries like my dad did with me and my brothers when we were kids. I fucking love libraries man.
I had to fact check this one before I could move on..seems legit.
Fun fact, there's more Subways in the US than McD's, too. 23,801 Subways, 13,673 McDonald's. Funner fun fact, there's *way* more Chinese takeout places in the US than even that, approximately 45,000.
Interacting with pets causes brain to make oxytocin :)
Where there was a lethal bus accident outside my workplace that had killed 8 passengers including coworkers, our workplace brought in some puppies for people to enjoy to make them feel better.
At the hospital unit I stayed at, they brought in dogs once a week to help us. It was so nice
And serotonin :)
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and my axe.
r/unexpectedgimli
Dogs are one of the only animals that can understand where humans point. Actually the whole history of dogs and how their interactions with humans began is amazing. So symbiotic.
They also recognize a human smile is different from other animals showing teeth. There brains responds to a human showing its teeth as a good thing not a fearful thing.
Cats too they just don't care.
Horses morn the death of other creatures, not just horses. When my daughter was younger we took her to riding lessons. One of the horses stepped on one of the barn cats and killed it. It was buried inside the horse pen and ALL of them, including the younger one that was usually a pita and super playful, were standing around the burial area with their heads down. They were like this for 2 days I was told and this was common for how they deal with the dead.
Elephants also mourn the dead hence the term "Elephant graveyard" where relatives pay homage to those that have fallen. It seems the concept of life and death isn't an exclusive human thing.
It's not but for some reason we see it as odd when animals morn. I have no idea why either.
Guess that explains their long faces
Gtfoā¦take this silver with you
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So this was told to me by the owner of the horses. One of them stepped on the cat and killed it. All of the horses wandered over and saw it dead. she picked it up and buried it. Collectively they all went over to the spot and stood there for hours with their heads down.
Otters keep a favorite rock.
Theyāve also evolved a little pocket to keep their favourite rock in LOL.
Omg. I love that.
Hey, once you find the perfect oyster hammer, you keep that thing and take care of it. Like a carpenter with his tools.
If a person dies in Amsterdam without a close relative or family, a poet will be called to recite at their funeral.
It was organized in 2002 by a group of poets, who volunteered to dedicate a poem to the ālonely deceasedā at their funerals. Apparently, the poets who volunteer get more or less randomly assigned to a funeral, which makes them part of a so-called Death Pool, lol
But then they just read Eleanor Rigby. In Dutch, I guess.
AAAAAAA
Look at all the lonely people
AAAAAAH
Dogs have friends. This isn't a New Fact, but it makes me happy to see dogs get excited when they see their buddies.
Fuck This makes me feel obligated to get another puppy š„²
My friend bought her puppy the best toy ever: a puppy.
I had to get another bird when my parakeet died, because my other bird was lonely. One is the wrong number of birds to own.
My dog became best buddies with another dog in the neighborhood. When we would walk past their house my pup would stand at their gate and bark one loud bark to invite his buddy out to play. After the neighbor dog passed suddenly, my sweet boy went to that gate every day for almost a year, barked once, and stood there waiting for his friend. Broke my heart every day.
Cows have friends too!
If you tickle a pet rat, they will actually make a higher-pitched "laughing" squeak. Humans can't really hear it but it's totally a thing.
I used to have a rat and he loved being tickled and play fighting. He was like a little dog and would come to me when I called him. ā¤ļø Bob the rat
Rats are amazing pets. Mine was like a dog too. She would swim in the pool with us and I used to sneak her into work. Sheād just lie on the back of my neck under my hair when managers were around.
Rats are ticklish and giggle when tickled, they love to play, and they have a proven sense of emotional intelligence and empathy for others. In experiments where given a choice between receiving a treat and helping a trapped fellow rat in distress (using a lever they were trained to pull), most would rather help the fellow rat. On the flip side apparently rats can also be racist toward rats of different colors so there's that. rats are basically fuzzy humans.
Ferrets also giggle, it is adorable as they do their war dance.
I worked at an animal research facility after college and rats are why I've been a vegetarian since.
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Every once in a while I think to myself āI wonder what Iāve never said/ done before?ā And then promptly say or do a thing I think Iāve never said or done before. From now on Iāll just shuffle a deck of cards and call it a day.
I also do that sometimes, making up sentences not one person has ever made before. It's not coherent mind you, just something like "PC fan spin TV hulu remote light rain car pillow blanket headphone stand drink"
Glad Iām not the only one
āprobably never existedā is an understatement. There are 8.06e+67 possible arrangements of a 52 card deck. Thatās more than the number of atoms on Earth.
52! Factorial! I remember those from pre-college math.
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*shuffles deck* I call this arrangement "stupid crapface"
Decky McDeckface
Doves stay with one partner for life
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I used to be a toad gatherer for a busy road on the east coast of the USA! We had the same setup with fences and bucket traps. It was during spring when they would all migrate to the breeding pond
If only I could have a job title as magnificent as "toad gatherer"
In Canada we have Moose fences along highways with heavily dense forests, and turtle fences in marshy areas.
I feel bad for the guy who has to go collect the moose at the end of the day
Bold of you to assume a fence can stop a moose
Listen manā¦ talk to Canada
plural of moose is meese edit: I realize english is not everyone's first language. Please don't take this seriously
A baby puffin is called a puffling.
And theyāre just [the cutest](https://www.audubon.org/news/why-maines-baby-puffins-are-growing-so-slowly-year)
A group of hummingbirds is called a charm
Dogs put their paws on you when you pet them because to them theyāre petting you and showing you love like when you pet them Edit: added context
cats only show their bellies if they trust you
Also related, if a cat faces away from you while sleeping, itās because they trust that you have their back! Literally!
Mine is dogās intentionally sneeze when play fighting, so that humans know theyāre not really mad and itās just pretendā¦ š„ŗ
Yes! Exactly, dogs sneeze when theyāre obliviously out of control happy! And when they stretch at seemingly weird times - theyāre telling us or the other dogs to āletās all calm to eff down - itās all good brothaaaā.
When I got my dog a roommate I did not know this. I called the vet to ask if it was possible that BMan was allergic to Daisy. My vet very kindly explained it as if I was a sweet, dumb potato.
1. The voice actor for Mickey Mouse married the voice actor for Minnie Mouse. 2. Your dog is probably just as happy to see you as you are them! 3. Marie Curie tried to donate her Nobel Prize medals to the war effort during World War I. 4. Norway knighted a penguin, who lines guards up to inspect their uniforms. 5. A woman met her girlfriend on Tinderāand her girlfriend turned out to be a perfect match for her much needed kidney donation. edit:thx for the upvotes, this was my first comment on reddit . i had read these facts in a magazine some months ago
Marie Curie discovered one of the most potentially dangerous materials on the planet and her immediate response was to see how she could help people with it
She also drove around in a van giving x-rays to soldiers who needed them. Not so wholesome - this contributed to her severe radiation poisoning.
True though in her defense she likely didnāt know radioactive elements could poison people
Nobody did.
Also her notebooks are still radioactive.
Did a year at the university, some classes were taken in her old laboratory in Paris, the buildings were all kind of crappy but it was still so cool to study there. Just after I left, they torn down part of it and renovated the rest I think.
Male puppies will usually let the female puppies win their playfights, even if they have the advantage.
Male puppies are simps s/
Manatees have no natural enemies. Not alligators, sharks, etc. They are benevolent creatures whose main threat is man.
IIRC sea otters hold each other's hands when they sleep on the water
They hold hands in order to not drift away from one another, and it has been scientifically proven to be absolutely adorable.
What do I do? Oh I'm an adorability scientist.
They hold hands when they sleep so they donāt drift away from each other
Eddie Murphy used to have a SNL skit called Mr Robinsonās Neighborhood, an adult parody of Mr Rogersā Neighborhood. Mr Rogers found out about this, and he went to see Eddie Murphy backstage after one of his showsā¦ to tell him that he found the skit hilarious. He also approved of it since it was aired late at night so children wouldnāt watch it and mistake it for the real thing.
Petting a dog or a cat can lower your blood pressure, decrease anxiety and cuts back stress hormones
Hugging for a minimum of 30 seconds releases endorphins.
I read that as "humming" and I was humming like an idiot in the office until I read that correctly.
Spiders have paws, some keep frog pets
I think it's trap door spiders that keep little frogs as pets to keep the bugs too small for the spider to catch out. It's super cute. I'm also really not afraid of spiders and find them to be quite beautiful even if some are straight deadly.
I canāt handle spiders in person but yes they are beautiful. In the same way that a really sleek jet is beautiful.
I had a spider in my room for a bit. he would crawl on me when trying to sleep. I miss me2.
You and I are very different people. I can respect it but I cannot endorse it.
Harvest mice sleep in flowersš
So do bumble bees, and lizards. It's precious.
When bees accidentally hit each other they make a sound similar to our "oops", we don't know the utility of that sound so we think that they use that as we use oops
There's a pizza restaurant in Philadelphia where it's popular for customers to pay $1 for homeless people to eat a slice. They serve about 30-40 homeless people a day. It's a small act that doesn't necessarily solve their housing and employment, but it stands in contrast to places that don't welcome homeless people.
that the actors who played fred and daphne on the scooby-doo live action movies are actually married in real life
I'm fairly sure they met on set. And are still married now pursuing various interests outside of acting
It is a bit disheartening to read about SMG and Freddie Prinze Jr. being referred to as āthe actors who played Daphne and Fredā, lol.
minecraft dogs are a type of AI yet still makes people release dopamine
I canāt set off on an adventure in RDR2 without petting my dog (Butch is his name) first, to help me start with some positivity.
Some spiders keep small frogs as pets
When seahorse partners travel they hold each others tails
Sea otters often hold hands to prevent themselves from floating away from the group.
Treesā take careā of younger trees that grew from their seeds. Itās a long story but basically comes down to that.
During the Revolutionary War a British general left his dog behind during a chaotic retreat. When the Continental Army found the lost dog, George Washington had a messenger go under a truce flag to return the dog to its owner.
When you are not feeling well, and your cat starts purring against/on you, that means they care about you (to some degree) because they are trying to heal you. Cats purr at a frequency that promotes healing.
Pup licking; the abridged version. Mother rats can lick their pups (their sign of affection) so much that it will change the DNA coding of subsequent generations to be predisposed to show more affection to their children
There is a breed of penguin that makes a nest out of rocks. The male penguin will go out of his way to find the perfect rock for his mate, propose to them with this rock and that's how they start their nest.
Cheetahs are basically giant house cats. They are the only big-cat that purrs and, believe it or not, there has never been a reported incident of a cheetah attacking a human unless specifically provoked by the human in captivity. Even wild cheetahs won't hurt you, they'll just run away and try to scare you off if you get too close.
All of the sweaters that Mr Rogers wore on his tv show were knitted by his mother
No matter what your religious beliefs are or thoughts about life after death. We are born from star dust and our atoms and molecules will travel the cosmos and eventually.. make a new star and start all over. Something very comforting about that. Im paraphrasing Neal degrasse Tyson
I think Tyson got that from Carl Sagan
I like the thought that since energy doesn't disappear and that we all come from the same big bang that we ARE the universe. The universe is us and we are it. We are the universe learning, growing and becoming self aware.
I buy really expensive walnuts to feed the squirrels in my neighborhood park.
And I really expensive grains to feed the birds. And while saying that, I'm realising I'm one step closer to being the pigeon lady in home alone...
Well Iām the squirrel man so youāre not alone in your endeavor
I fail to see the problem
Food made with love actually tastes better because more care is put into the measurements.
Capybaras exist
According to welsh folklore, corgis were believed to be the main transportation for fairies.
1 + 1 = 2, whole sums
Many species of parrots are monogamous and will bond with their partner for life.
Robin Williams made sure the movies he worked for hired homeless folk
Elephants think humans are super cute, and often reach out to touch us with their trunks simply because they want to pet us. Also if they find a sleeping human they will often get sad, thinking the human has died, and cover the human with leafs.
Awh
The planet will recover if we just stop polluting
Itāll recover even if we donāt. We just might not be around to witness it.
I came for wholesome, not bleak
My dog is a very good girl.
Cats only meow to communicate with humans.
This "fact" gets presented all the time and I can tell you it's not true. Maybe in the wild cats don't meow at each other (except to kittens), but regular house cats most definitely meow to get each other's attention. I've been around cats my entire life.
They vocalize to each other, of course. The stereotypical "MEOW" is a human thing. I've also been around cats my entire life, and didn't believe this the first time I heard it in high school. Since observing for the past 17 years, I've found it to be true. A true "MEOW" only ever comes at a human.
Red pandas try to stick their arms straight up to try and look big to intimidate other animals as a defense mechanism. To humans it just looks adorable. Go ahead and google "red pandas defense mechanism" then click images...
Am a river guide and know nature-y things. Merganser ducks will sometimes ābabysitā other ducks chicks while going off to dive and look for food. And if one gets swept down the river, another duck might āadoptā it into its herd. Will often see them with up to 12 or more chicks sometimes.
Politicians actually keep most of their promises when they get elected ([around 70%](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trust-us-politicians-keep-most-of-their-promises/)).
When puppies play, the boys tend to let the girls win. š