15+ Curiosities about the world that you can tell to surprise your children

Children’s curiosity is something that knows no bounds. Sooner or later, all children reach that stage where they want to know more about the world and ask why anything and everything. As a result, a parent started a thread in the reddit asking other platform users to send curiosities capable of appeasing his 4-year-old daughter’s thirst for knowledge. And the responses sent by Internet users allowed the creation of a list full of interesting information.

We, from awesome.clubwe have made a selection with some of this data so that you can also surprise your children.

Tigers’ fur is striped. And the lines are like fingerprints, which is to say, no two tigers have the same stripes. In addition, they help to disguise the contour of the feline’s body, so that prey do not notice when they are approaching.

The Cuban bee hummingbird weighs little more than an almond. The small bird reaches only 20 grams and is considered the smallest in the world. It is also known as the buzzing hummingbird, due to the noise it makes when flying, which resembles a buzzing.

George Washington’s set of teeth was made of hippopotamus and elephant ivory, with pieces of gold. Its use was necessary as a result of the mercury-based treatments he underwent due to the illnesses he had. Washington even used prostheses with human, horse, cow and donkey teeth.

Birds have navels. Yes, this information may sound surprising, since they are born from eggs. However, inside them is a small cord that connects the developing embryo to the yolk sac. When the chicks break the egg, they are left with a small scar where the cord was, but this tends to disappear as they grow.

Gold is a very dense material and what has been extracted from it throughout history would be enough to fill only 3.5 Olympic swimming pools.

Adwaita was a tortoise of the Aldabra tortoise species that died in 2006. The curious thing about him is that his date of birth was estimated to have been around the year 1750, which made the tortoise one of the oldest animals that there was news.

As incredible as it may seem, cotton candy was invented by dentists. William Morrison and his colleague, John C. Wharton, developed the machine that makes the treat. Later, during festivities in the American city of St. Louis, cotton candy became very popular.

Every day, a human being swallows 2 liters of saliva. Therefore, at the end of its life, it will have swallowed the equivalent of 2 Olympic swimming pools.

We are not the only species capable of recognizing itself in front of a mirror. Dolphins, gorillas and orangutans also have the same ability. That’s what the French photographer Xavier Hubert Brierre discovered, who traveled to Gabon, Africa, where he placed mirrors in front of the animals to check their reaction.

To produce a kilogram of honey, a bee needs to visit four million flowers and travel a distance equivalent to traveling four times around the world.

The first pillows weren’t exactly comfortable. In fact, in Ancient Egypt they were produced in stone, although there are records of cases made of wood or alabaster.

In the Peruvian part of the Amazon there is a “boiling river” whose average temperature is approximately 86°C. Although it does not reach 100°C, which is the point at which water boils, the sensation it causes is that of being really boiling.

The largest bat colony in the world is in the United States, more precisely under the bridge on Congress Avenue, in the city of Austin, Texas.

Giraffes were believed to be the only animals to not make a sound. However, after recording different noises in zoos, Angela Stoger, a researcher at the University of Vienna, Austria, found that they produce a unique hum at night.

In Death Valley, California, the rocks move by themselves. A few years ago, a group of specialists discovered that this is not due to any paranormal activity: in fact, the stones move from one place to another because the water freezes and they end up sliding on a layer of ice.

Anteaters do not have teeth. To feed themselves, they use their tongue, which has the capacity to capture up to 35,000 ants and termites per day. Prey defend themselves by counterattacking, forcing the anteater to put its tongue on the anthill up to 160 times per minute.

Did you always think there were only 3 types of tomatoes? It’s wrong. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has a list of 10,000 different types of fruit from different parts of the world.

The maternal instinct is not unique to human beings. A group of scholars discovered that rats that had recently given birth sought out their young to take care of them.

Which of the above information is the most intriguing, in your opinion? And for your children, which one would generate more interest? Comment!