We’re unfortunately living in an age where negativity and toxicity are in abundance whenever we go online. You’ll see it in hateful social media posts, divisive political commentaries, and blatant misinformation, among others.
Fortunately, there is still a less-explored part of the internet that can remind us to hold more optimism. This recent Threads post is one of them, where people shared beautiful, encouraging facts that may sound too good to be true but are actually real.
You can always do your own research to verify this information if you wish. Nonetheless, hopefully these can brighten your day in some way.
#41
Otters sometimes fall asleep holding hands so that if they are swept away by a sudden flood at least they won't be alone.
20points
#42
When a baby grows in the womb, part of their DNA remains behind after they're born. So for anyone who has ever lost a child they carried, part of them quite literally lives on in you. You carry them everywhere you go. ❤️🩹
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20points
#43
My baby blows raspberries when she’s sad. It doesn’t fix climate change, world hunger or poverty, and it does morning if you don’t like babies. But goodness me, it’s hard to believe the world is inherently evil when it happens.
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20points
#44
Your reflection in the mirror is the actual truest appearance of yourself. Not the unflattering photo someone tagged you in.
19points
#45
Elephants get the same endorphins looking at humans that we do when looking at baby animals. Elephants quite literally find us as adorable as a puppy!
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18points
#46
There's a Brazilian research and medicine developed with more than 5 people being treated after accidentally becoming paraplegic that are now walking again :)
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18points
#47
baby elephants suck on their trunk the way that baby humans suck on their thumb 🥰
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17points
#48
Baby girls develop all the egg cells they’ll ever have while they’re still in the womb, by around 20 weeks of fetal development. That means when your grandmother was pregnant with your mother, part of what would one day become you already existed inside your mom.
So when Grandma says you’re her baby… maybe she’s not just being sentimental. Maybe it’s because she really did carry you, too. 💛
So when Grandma says you’re her baby… maybe she’s not just being sentimental. Maybe it’s because she really did carry you, too. 💛
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16points
#49
People perceive you as being 20% more attractive than you think you are.
15points
#51
Researchers in Japan have found a way to regrow adult teeth and are preparing to release this to the public
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15points
#52
Pronoia, the opposite of paranoia, is the delusion that everyone is secretly plotting your success.
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15points
#53
“Fake it till you make it” has some real science behind it. Even a forced smile can make your brain feel a little happier.
Sometimes your body teaches your mind. Smile first, and your brain often starts looking for reasons to believe it.
Sometimes your body teaches your mind. Smile first, and your brain often starts looking for reasons to believe it.
14points
#54
Diamond rain: Deep inside the gas giant planets Jupiter and Saturn, the intense pressure turns carbon into real diamonds that fall like rain.
Had to look it up cause I couldn’t think of anything
lol
Had to look it up cause I couldn’t think of anything
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13points
#55
Golden retrievers produce more oxytocin (the cuddle hormone) than any other breed.
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12points
#56
That smell...that you love it's called petrichor...and it in fact can reduce stress, anxiety and actually improve your mood.
11points
#57
I’ve always like the idea from The Watchmen that any given human life is a thermodynamic miracle. The odds of you existing are about the same as the odds that the air you’re breathing will randomly turn into gold. So your very existence is a miracle.
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9points
#58
This is about me, personally. I should have died in 2009
In late 2009, I was in the hospital, following a brain surgery gone wrong. I don’t remember 3 months. A week after the brain surgery, I went into cardiac arrest and coded. I was paralyzed. The hospital is 3 hours away from me so I don’t remember any of the staff, though I am friends with the nurse on Facebook. I asked her once, “had I not been in the hospital when all that happened, would I still be alive?” Her response, “no”
In late 2009, I was in the hospital, following a brain surgery gone wrong. I don’t remember 3 months. A week after the brain surgery, I went into cardiac arrest and coded. I was paralyzed. The hospital is 3 hours away from me so I don’t remember any of the staff, though I am friends with the nurse on Facebook. I asked her once, “had I not been in the hospital when all that happened, would I still be alive?” Her response, “no”
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9points
#59
We're close to a cure for colon cancer thanks to tree frogs and scientists in Japan. Not only did it have a 100% success rate, but when cancer was reintroduced, the treatment showed to act like as vaccine.
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9points
#60
During pregnancy a baby's cells can travel into a mother's body and repair injured tissue 😌
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7points
