30 On-The-Nose Facts That Many Of Us May Feel Stupid For Not Realizing Earlier

Cats, dogs, and other similar animals can't see directly below their faces.

Because their snout gets in the way.

(That's why you have to point out the treat a million times, they're not stupid, the damn thing is just in their blind spot)

If you touch a baby bird, the mother will not reject it. I don’t even know who came up with it.

Baby porcupines are called porcupettes.

Percentages are reversible. 8% of 25 is the same as 25% of 8 and one of them is much easier to do in your head.

911 operators have no f*****g clue where you are instantly unless you're on a landline.

You HAVE to say where you are. It's not our fault movies made you think we have a spy level video of you in your car.

Know your location.

Most cats are like super lactose intolerant, and drinking milk is really really bad for them.

you don't give a person free REIGN, you give them free REIN.

a queen REIGNS over her queendom, but you REIN in a horse, which is where this comes from.

i see this mistake constantly, even in professional journalism, and it drives me nuts.

Words that are spelled the same but pronounced with emphasis on different syllables is actually indicative of the part of speech it is.
Stress on the first syllable is a noun. Stress on the last syllable is a verb.
Examples: CON-tract and con-TRACT. The former is a noun ( sign this contract) whereas the latter is a verb (the muscles contract).
Same with record, address, impact, object, and a few others.

Just like humans, British cows moo in regional accents.

It was never mentioned that Humpty-Dumpty was an egg.

Pufferfish are filled with water, not air. It wouldn’t even make sense, yet a lot of people are like *what??*

Covered bridges are designed with roofs to protect and preserve the wooden structure from the elements. Without the cover they'd last about 20 years, with the cover they can last up to 100. They're not built that way just to look charming.

Antisocial means that you are hostile or harmful to organized society. As in being or marked by behavior deviating sharply from the social norm.

Asocial is rejecting or lacking the capacity for social interaction.

There's a 'd' in fridge but not in refrigerator. It really bothers me...

When a nurse gives you an IV - they aren't leaving the metal needle inside your arm - they actually remove that and only a soft plastic tube remains - so you don't need to keep your arm that straight, relax.

You don't actually bite down. You bite up because of your lower jaw.

The little piggy didn't go to the market for shopping

to 'fast' means to abstain from eating. you do this every night when you go to bed.

The first meal of the day is called 'breakfast' because you're breaking your fast.

World Wide Web contains fewer syllables than its intended short form - WWW, thus making the shorter version longer to say.

Cocunut milk is not the liquid inside the coconut, that's coconut water, coconut milk comes from the white flesh inside. The white flesh is pulped or diced and left to soak in warm water, this pulp is then squeezed through a cloth giving you the milk.