24 Simple Facts That Are Actually Surprising

RustyBuckler Published 11/11/2021 in wow

Sometimes the simplest things can be the most mind-blowing. Here are some simple, everyday facts that we discovered over at r/AskReddit.

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1. Otters have skin pockets for their favorite rocks. -u/CryoWrek
2. Cashews come from a fruit. The fruit is edible but apparently hard to transport long distances, so the only places you're likely to find it are where cashews are grown. -u/Pseudonymico
3. A Siamese cat’s 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. -u/MudSlappers
4. Most elephants weigh less than a blue whale’s tongue! -u/Delica
5. Dogs can tell when your coming home by how much of your scent is left in the house if you have a daily routine. -u/babiferari
6. 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. -u/The_First_Viking
7. A day on Venus takes longer to complete Than a year on Venus.. how? It simply takes longer for Venus to do one complete rotation around its own axis, than it does for the planet to rotate around the sun. -u/AmerisaurausRex
8. 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. -u/gruenoms
9. 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! -u/Dickcheese_McDoogles
10. Bees tell their friends about good nearby flowers by dancing. -u/[deleted]
11. There's an island in Japan populated only by fluffy bunnies!! -u/Dickcheese_McDoogles
12. The building in the world with the most toilets is Wembley Stadium. -calibrateichabod
13. Pineapples are a collection of berries. -u/Ace_Shades
14. Giraffe tongues are black to protect from sunburn as they are out so much during the day. -u/jadiza1777
15. Horses have roughly a 350 degree field of vision around them with one of their two blind spots being in the front. Horses can't see directly ahead for up to about four feet. -u/ThePerfectSnare
16. When a bee is chosen to be the new queen, they are given a special type of honey that completely changes their bodies. Kind of like how a Pokémon evolves. -u/SinusMonstrum
17. There's a train station in Japan that has a cat station master (currently Nitama) -u/pumpkinadvocate
18. Tigers have striped skin. -u/lovealwayscharlie666
19. It takes a little over 8 minutes for the light from the Sun to get to earth. -u/arcant12
20. There are more stars than there are grains of sand on all the beaches in the world. -u/Canucklehead_Esq
21. 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. -u/-eDgAR-
22. Lobsters were considered disgusting and low-class food, to the point that feeding them to prisoners too often was considered cruel and unusual punishment. Also they're basically just big sea roaches. -u/Leifur311
23. Butterflies smell with their feet. -u/scratchybanana
24. Bullfrogs never sleep. -u/luxylove916

1. Otters have skin pockets for their favorite rocks. -u/CryoWrek
2. Cashews come from a fruit. The fruit is edible but apparently hard to transport long distances, so the only places you're likely to find it are where cashews are grown. -u/Pseudonymico
3. A Siamese cat’s 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. -u/MudSlappers
4. Most elephants weigh less than a blue whale’s tongue! -u/Delica
5. Dogs can tell when your coming home by how much of your scent is left in the house if you have a daily routine. -u/babiferari
6. 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. -u/The_First_Viking
7. A day on Venus takes longer to complete Than a year on Venus.. how? It simply takes longer for Venus to do one complete rotation around its own axis, than it does for the planet to rotate around the sun. -u/AmerisaurausRex
8. 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. -u/gruenoms
9. 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! -u/Dickcheese_McDoogles
10. Bees tell their friends about good nearby flowers by dancing. -u/[deleted]
11. There's an island in Japan populated only by fluffy bunnies!! -u/Dickcheese_McDoogles
12. The building in the world with the most toilets is Wembley Stadium. -calibrateichabod
13. Pineapples are a collection of berries. -u/Ace_Shades
14. Giraffe tongues are black to protect from sunburn as they are out so much during the day. -u/jadiza1777
15. Horses have roughly a 350 degree field of vision around them with one of their two blind spots being in the front. Horses can't see directly ahead for up to about four feet. -u/ThePerfectSnare
16. When a bee is chosen to be the new queen, they are given a special type of honey that completely changes their bodies. Kind of like how a Pokémon evolves. -u/SinusMonstrum
17. There's a train station in Japan that has a cat station master (currently Nitama) -u/pumpkinadvocate
18. Tigers have striped skin. -u/lovealwayscharlie666
19. It takes a little over 8 minutes for the light from the Sun to get to earth. -u/arcant12
20. There are more stars than there are grains of sand on all the beaches in the world. -u/Canucklehead_Esq
21. 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. -u/-eDgAR-
22. Lobsters were considered disgusting and low-class food, to the point that feeding them to prisoners too often was considered cruel and unusual punishment. Also they're basically just big sea roaches. -u/Leifur311
23. Butterflies smell with their feet. -u/scratchybanana
24. Bullfrogs never sleep. -u/luxylove916