32 Happy Facts That Will Give You A (Momentary) Positive Outlook On This Mad World

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mattstaff
Mar 25, 2019 9:00 AM EDT

Happiness can take on a different form for everyone, with occasional intersections. Maybe you'll find yourself smiling without realizing it, when you read one of these. To think that a blind person smiles without ever knowing what that looks like to begin with, and then further break down why they're smiling, and what that emotion might be related to, is a trip. Is it a smile out of happiness, anger, fear, sadness? Who's to say. 

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    Text - Mom_Petty 6h There are more museums (and related organizations) in the U.S. than there are Starbucks and McDonalds, combined.
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    Text - Wassa_Matter 6h Global literacy rates are rising.
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    Text - ihateyulia 7h A group of ladybugs is called a loveliness of ladybugs.
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    Text - jfrth 5h penguins mate for life. they also "propose" by giving their intended mate a rock
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    Text - dillonmp 6h Blind people smile despite never having seen someone smile before.* *assuming they were born blind
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    Text - ThinkFact 7h Green-rumped parrotlets actually give unique names to their children that they keep for their entire lives. In cases where the chicks were replaced and given to another set of parents, names given to those chicks were more reminiscent of their adopted parents than their birth parents. This indicates that different families have unique ways of giving names with slightly different sounds. All this meaning that the naming process is a learned behavior rather than being something
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    Text - Morall_tach 6h Swiss law dictates that guinea pigs cannot be kept in isolation. You have to have at least two they have someone to socialize with
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    Text - scherbatsky_jr6h That the tiger population doubled in the last ter year in my country
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    Text - LGMHorus 5h Physical books sales are in an all time high, and literacy has never been higher!
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    Text - Earthicus 7h People that like to laugh a lot live longer.
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    Text - britaww. 4h There is a Ned Flanders themed heavy metal band called Okilly Dokilly.
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    Text - Klaxon722 7h Meows are not innate cat language-they developed them to communicate with humans!
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    Text - grizzfan 7h There's a metal band called Freedom Call, and they're the happiest metal band you've ever heard. In pretty much every instance where they could be singing "heavy metal" in their lyrics, they sing "happy metal."
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    Text - Painted Lady5519 5h Mr. Rogers always weighed 143 pounds. He equated it with I 1 letter) Love (4 letters) You (3 letters).
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    Text - Parsival_ 6h Dogs purposefully sneeze when play fighting to show its not a serious fight.
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    Text - Cardigan_B 6h Keanu Reeves donates millions to children's hospitals without telling the world about what good deed he's doing. He's genuine such a nice guy and I respect his personality as much as his acting career. It's also nice to know he genuinely loves his profession. It's amazing what he's done considering all the tragedy in his life.
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    Text - SpookyFrost 7h Dogs can smell your feelings and learn to respond accordingly.
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    Text - Anima1X 4h My cat purrs so loud and hard it makes her sneeze. Especially when I come home from a trip
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    Text - ksozay 3h I asked my wife to marry me. She said yes. She showed up to the wedding, walked down the aisle, spoke her vows and said "I DO" Every day I wake up in the morning and she's sleeping next to me. I breathe a little easier. Super happy it wasn't all a dream. I know that shit sounds sappy but it's the fact of my life
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    Text - tea_alternative 7h Life is like a "choose your adventure" book. You get to pick if you stay in bed all day or go out and seize the day.
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    Text - MudShark419 4h Young sloths are so dopey and incompetent that while climbing, sometimes they will grab hold of their own arm or leg instead of a branch, and fall out of the tree
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    Text - nate_rausch 3h One of the happiest facts I learned was in the book The beginning of infinity by David Deutsch, that all problems are solvable, within the laws of physics. That there aren't any physical limitations between one state and another, and the only thing keeping you from solving any problem is knowing how to.
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    Text - mleclerc182 7h Elephants brains have a similar reaction to seeing us as we do to puppies. They think we're cute
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    Text - c9lceCream 5h Some of the animals removed from the endangered species list in the last few years due to population increases American Alligator Southern White Rhino Siberian Tiger Panda American Grizzly Bear Gray Whale Stellar Sea Lion Gray Wolf and there's more.
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    Text - The_SpellJammer 7h That humankind advanced more in the past 130 years than any time before that. In like the equivalent of a second, if a day was human existence. Chances are pretty good this will happen again as we continue developing. Pretty amazing, inspiring.
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    Text - godtiermars 7h there is a squirrel that learned how to water ski...you go little man. if he can do that then i can do anything
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    Text - Patrikiwi 5h Some of the best days of our lives haven't happened yet.
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    Text - Onlyhalfjewish 5h That people who are given their second choice of something rather than their first end up happier with what they have than those who think they got the perfect thing off the bat. In other words, you can grow to love something, sometimes even more than the thing you thought you originally wanted
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    Text - idiotsonfire 4h You are composed of the same stuff that stars create. You are 1:1 the same ratio of elements as what is created in most stars, and we're composed of all of that material. It makes feel really connected to the universe when I think of that.
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    Text - Bosco00 5h Scientists estimate about 5 more years until we'll be able to harness power from fusion nuclear reactors that can provide a lot of cheap and clean energy. So that picture on Reddit's popular page about the iceberg melting? We can reverse that damage
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    Text - poppinjake 3h I can change my world simply by changing myself or I have more control over my happiness than anyone else....
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    Text - NihilisticDustSpeck 2h Otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't float away from each other.
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