50 Wholesome Facts That Might Bring Some Sunshine To Your Day

A train station in Japan had plans to close but noticed a student was the only one using it. They decided to close when she graduates from high school

The number of public libraries in the US is far greater than the number of McDonald's.

The last time Lichtenstein went to war they sent out 80 men and returned with 81 because the soldiers made a friend.

- Bob Ross would receive letters every week from his regular viewers. When a regular would stop writing to him, he would call them and make sure they're ok.

- Bob Ross also once got a letter from a colorblind viewer who said they can't paint due to their colorblindness. He then did an episode where he made a painting entirely out of gray colors to prove that anyone can paint.

- Mr. Rogers hand-wrote letters back to everyone who wrote to him.

The brain of an elephant reacts the same way to seeing a human as a human brain does to seeing a puppy.

Dogs will modify their play with puppies to let the puppy win. My dog treats our cat like a puppy and will lay on his side only using his front paws to "defend" himself. He usually lets the cat win and then she struts around. It's adorable.

I'm over 5 years sober. And I never have to drink again.

There is a tribute sculpture of silver feathers in County Cork, Ireland called "Kindred Spirits".

It commemorates the 1847 donation of $170 (about $4,700 in 2019 dollars) by the Native American Choctaw People to Irish famine relief during the Great Hunger, despite the Choctaw themselves living in hardship and poverty and having recently endured the Trail of Tears.

I love this fact because I'm from Cork in Ireland ☘

In New Zealand, if you need to call the Emergency Services you can just ring the number you would use in your own country and you will get through... 911/111/999... it is so that in a situation when you are panicking, you dont need to remember a new number to get help.

Cows have best friends and when paired together, their heart rates are significantly lower and they experience less stress overall <3

The Netherlands sends Canada 20,000 tulip bulbs every year to thank them for their help during WWII.

Whenever you see something go wrong in the world -- either a natural disaster, an accident, or a man-made crisis -- it's very easy to focus on the negatives. The tremendous loss of life. The monsters who thought an act of terrorism would help their cause. The mismanagement that made things worse. The people looting and profiteering from other people's misery. It's easy to get disparaged and see only the worst of humanity.

But there are always, *always* people going out of their way to help their fellow man. The people who ran into the towers on 9/11 to ensure that as many people as possible got out. The people who hid Jews from the Nazis during the Holocaust. The Choctaw Nation Americans who sent a donation to Ireland in the wake of the potato famine in order to help in any way they could. People queuing up to donate blood in the wake of a mass shooting or other natural disaster. People who try their absolute level best to change the systems that led to these problems in the first place, throwing everything they can into protests and political action to try and make the world a better place. These actions are almost always done not for glory or rfor personal profit, but because it's the right thing to do. And it happens everywhere, every time, in every country around the globe.

In Germany, they have these "frog fences". These fences keep the frogs from crossing the roads and getting run over. At the end of the day somebody comes by and gathers the frogs and helps them cross the road

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During the Second World War an American B-17 (I think it was the Flying Fortress) was trying to make her way back home heavily damaged.

A German 109 (fighter) saw it and decided to investigate. The pilot noticed the guns weren’t manned and the insane amount of damage the plane had (a good chuck of fuselage was missing along the side). Flew up beside the bomber and caught eye-contact with the American pilot. He waved.

The German pilot then escorted the bomber back to American territory where the German pilot waved off.

These two pilots met each other after the war and became friends

Penguins spend a lot of time looking for a pebble to give to another penguin to propose. If the other penguin accepts it, they mate for life.

In Amsterdam, if someone has no next of kin or close family and dies, then a poet will be asked to read at their funeral.

Squirrels will adopt abandoned babies

Blind people smile like everyone else, even though they've never seen anyone else smile. It's just a natural human expression.

In some countries, they have "wildlife crossings" which are just grassy green bridges running over highways for animals to cross, so they don't have to cross the highway.

I think it's the purest thing in the world

Most sharks only bite people because they don’t have hands and are just curious.

Good day mate how are you doing. Just going to give you a nibble to say hi. Oh my god your bloody arm came off my bad. Ooo that looks bad are you ok? You know what I’m just going to leave. Ok so I circled around a bit seams you haven’t made it far. That’s a lot of blood mate here I’ll try to give you a boost. Let me just grab that thrashing leg. Oh come on it’s bleeding now to. S**t you know what I’m done with you bleeding all over my house I’m just going to eat you to clean this mess up. Nothing against you.