20+ Mind-Blowing But Simple Facts To Satisfy A Kid's Crazy Curiosity

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mattstaff
Apr 18, 2019 5:00 PM EDT

A viral AskReddit thread's filled with mind-blowing, but simple facts to satisfy someone's 4-year-old daughter's daily request for 1 fact before bedtime.

 The ensuing facts are all kinds of fascinating. No way do you need to be a kid to get a kick out of these. I mean, come on; there's an island inhabited only by armies of bunnies? Dude, hell yes. Or how about Queen Bees being fed a special kind of honey that evolves them like a Pokémon when they're chosen by their hive. The world is full of madness, and it is a beautiful thing. We're always going to be ready for more mind-blowing, fun facts. 

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    Text - CryoWreck S Otters have skin pockets for their favorite rocks 6h
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    Text - The_First_Viking 6h Some species of burrowing spiders keep teeny tiny frogs in their burrows to keep it free of bugs too small for the spider to get that might try to eat the spider's eggs. This means that tiny frogs are spider cats.
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  • 03
    Text - Canucklehead_Esq 8h There are more stars than there are grains of sand on all the beaches in the world
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    Text - Dickcheese_McDoogles 2. 8h There's an island in Japan populated only by fluffy bunnies!!
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    Yes, this is a REAL thing. See here for guy getting smothered by loving bunnies on Japan's Bunny Island.

  • 05
    Text - Delica S 7h Most elephants weigh less than a blue whale's tongue!
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  • 06
    Text - matergallina 6h I once told my son that there was a scientist for every thing. So we started a tradition where he'd pick something to see if there were people that studied it, and I'd give some age-appropriate examples of what they do.
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    Text - Shwammy2 7h Idk if this counts but Brigadier Sir Nils Olav is king penguin. He is colonel-in-chief of the Norwegian King's Guard, as well as the mascot. He currently lives in the Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland.
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    Text - gruenoms 7h From the time Pluto was discovered until the time it was demoted from planethood, it still hadn't made one complete revolution around the sun.
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  • 09
    Text - The-Peep-Show 8h This list of what groups of animals are called... ie a group of elephants is a parade, a group of owls is a parliament, a group of wild cats is called a destruction
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    Text - Reecespie 8h A polar bears skin is black
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    Text - SinusMonstrum 8h When a bee is chosen to be the new queen, they given a special type of honey that completely changes their bodies. Kind of like how a Pokémon evolves. Super simplified, but it's still pretty cool to think about.
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    Text - calibrateichabod 6h The building in the world with the most toilets is Wembley Stadium.
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  • 13
    Text - greenhousetoilet 8h Bees tell their friends about good nearby flowers by dancing.
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  • 14
    Text - halakata 8h Making pennies cost more than their actual value
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  • 15
    Text - -eDgAR- 7h Humans are bioluminescent and glow in the dark, but the light that we emit is 1,000 times weaker than our human eyes are able to pick up.
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  • 16
    Text - trisometriangle It rains diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter other planets Reply 1.6k Constantine-XI 8h Neptune and Uranus
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    Text - D-Evolve 7h pufferfish are full of water....not air. don't know if thats mindblowing, but I learned that at the ripe old age of 38...it's logical when i think about it but it never crossed my mind.
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    Text - Ace_Shades 8h Pineapples are a collection of berries
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    Text - aveganliterary 7h The distance from your inner elbow to your wrist is the same as the length of your foot. This one is fun because it sounds insane (the forearm looks longer), but if you put your foot to your arm you see that's it's accurate.
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    Text - Merboo 7h Popcorn is a vegetable.
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  • 21
    Text - lukey5452 Billy goats wee on their heads to smell better for the lady goats.
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  • 22
    Text - scratchybanana 8h Butterflies smell with their feet
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    Text - lornstar7 7h Whales are closer to cows than to sharks
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  • 24
    Text - heuniversalsquid Your family probably has a wealth of history behind it. Start telling them about Grandma and Grandpa when they were young 7h
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  • 25
    Text - tragicworldrecord 8h Zebras are black with white stripes, not white with black stripes
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    Text - Silverspik 8h If you accelerated constantly as fast as a dragster, it would take you 3 months to get to the speed of light.
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    Text - DepressedBard 7h There was more time between the Stegosaurus and the Tyrannosaurus Rex than between Tyrannosaurus rex and humans.
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    Text - birdpooponmyshoulder 7h You can always see your own nose, but your brain learns to filter it out. You can feel always feel your own tongue residing inside your mouth. The only thing you are able to see clear is the exact spot you're looking at. Your brain just fills in the rest. Oh, and the periphery of your vision is in black and white!
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    Text - DarthEquus 8h Elephants are the only animals with 4 knees Edit because everyone loves semantics and an explanation made for a four year old is apparently too simple: Elephants have four forward facing "knees". The front knees are the equivalent to our wrists while the hind knees are evolutionary the same structure as our knees. Typically quadrupeds have the knee, or stifle, further up while the hock, the backwards bending joint in dogs, cats, horses, etc., which is the equivalent to our a
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    Text - thezekefreak2 8h You are closer to death now than you have ever been
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    Text - Truffle Fries 8h Kangaroos can't walk backwards
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    Text - pumpkinadvocate . 8h Chocolate was once used as currency (by the Aztecs. more accurately, cacao beans were used)
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  • 33
    Text - tragicworldrecord S Your hand is exactly the same size as your face thwack!
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    Text - nazmouse 8h Male lions sleep 23 of the 24 hours in a day.
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    Text - MudSlappers 6h A Siamese cats fur color is dependent on its body temperature. That's why the colder areas of the body such as the nose, paws, and tail are darker than the rest
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    Text - Zamboniqueen 6h Rabbits usually sleep during the day, but they often sleep with their eyes open so you can't tell If you look closely, sleeping bunnies don't twitch their noses :)
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    Text - George-Newman1027 7h You are physically able to bite your own thumb off with ease, but your body automatically prevents you from using full force.
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    Text - Lord_AdGnalDiv 5h Most people have more than the average number of arms.
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    Text - BloodRedCobra 7h Pistol shrimp cause water to cavitate, and the water rushing in to fill the cavity briefly heats the water to upwards of 450,000 Kelvin (C K- 273.15) This is hotter than the sun, and they use this to kill prey
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