Dad Asks The Internet What Interesting Facts They Know So He Could Tell Them To His 2 Kids

[left-of-center2012]

“Having now exhausted my own supply of memorized trivia as well as several random lists on the internet, I’m taking suggestions below,” McKay tweeted in a viral thread below.

Let’s see some of the best suggestions and you may as well get your notebook ready!







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[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. There are only two inorganic substances that are liquids at earths average surface temperature

(inorganic meaning 'doesn't contain the element Carbon').

Water, and ... who knows the other?

[wryter2000]

2. Wild assed guess

Mercury?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

5. It was not so wild after all :)

Trippy thing ... as I'm writing this I got an email ... from Quiksilver (the surfing gear company). Weird!

[ironflange]

12. Also bromine

[Hugh_Lebowski]

15. You're right, I should've said 'occurring freely in nature' as well

In order to properly exclude it.

Good catch

[ironflange]

16. It's OK, bromine is nasty nasty stuff

It's best we don't discuss it.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

17. Wait, what were we talking about?

[3catwoman3]

20. One year, way back when, my high school decided to use bromine...

…instead of chlorine in the school pool because it was cheaper. Nasty green color that made the pool look like it was full of algae. They soon went back to chlorine.

[Goonch]

3. Llamas hate smart-ass kids

[Wounded Bear]

4. That last one left out "dweeb"...

[Harker]

6. And dwelt. n/t

[Harker]

8. Dwelling, dweller... n/t

[wryter2000]

9. And dwone

At least that's how Elmer Fudd would say drone.

[Harker]

11. That caws for a dwastic wesponse. n/t

[wryter2000]

7. One of the answers

Cats only meow at humans. They're imitating what we sound like to them.

Kittens meow at their mothers. Stray cats don't meow at everyone, but they will meow at people who feed them. If a feral meows at you, it's likely to become friendly to get food. My guess is cats meow at their food source.

[ironflange]

13. My cats meow at each other all the time

[Elessar Zappa]

14. Yes but only domestic cats who have been around humans.

In general, feral cats won’t meow to each other.

[Harker]

10. The longest word in the English language that can be spelled

using only the uppermost row of letters on a typewriter is...

TYPEWRITER

[Hugh_Lebowski]

18. Longest that can be typed with the left hand (in regular position on QWERTY style)

STEWARDESSES

Or so I recall reading somewhere at least

[Harker]

19. Perfect!

There's always former Detroit Tigers infielder Don WERT, whose name is sequential.

There was also a time when Tiger Aurelio Rodriguez was the only major leaguer with AEIOU all in his first name.

I understand there was a subsequent Aurelio.

[3catwoman3]

21. There are some very interesting replies...

...in the linked thread.