50 Wholesome Facts That Might Bring Some Sunshine To Your Day

That when you pet a dog and then they put a paw on you, it's them reciprocating the act. Dogs can't actually preform the "petting" motion so the just put a paw on you.

Otters hold hands to keep from drifting apart while they float.

When your cat narrows their eyes at you it’s their way of letting you know they care about you and are happy to see you.

Red pandas use their tails as blankets to keep themselves warm!

I've got a pair of cardinals that come to the feeder every day. I noticed that sometimes the male feeds the female. The female quickly shakes her tail feathers and the male responds by picking up a seed in his beak and feeding it to the female. I learned that this is part of their mating behavior. It allows the male to "practice" feeding because he'll have to fill in for the female when she occasionally leaves the nest with the hatchlings in it. Plus it's just adorable.

Billy Joel never sells front-row seats. Instead, he gives them away for free to fans who can't afford them.

You know when babies are smiling and laughing, but then they suddenly turn away? They’re having a happiness overload! Basically their brains can’t handle all the excitement they’re experiencing by what they see, so the only remedy is to just not look anymore.

Mr. Rogers was riding with a chauffeur and the chauffeur mentioned that they were driving by his house. Mr. Rogers asked to come meet his family and spent the evening having dinner and played the piano while everyone sang songs.

Volvo was going to patent the modern seatbelt, but they revoked the patent in the interest of saving lives

This probably isn't the MOST wholesome but it's the first I thought of. In this era of evil corporate overlords let's remember Saran Wrap. Have you noticed that Saran Wrap kinda sucks these days? It seems like it barely sticks like it used to and doesn't preserve food as long. You might think this was due to cost cutting measures to line investor and executive pockets, that's the usual reason products go to c**p.

The actual reason is that the key chemical used in its manufacture was determined to be bad environmentally. They were unable to find a replacement that provided the same performance. There were no regulations requiring them to change the formula and changing it would surely hurt their market share. They did it anyway without any fanfare and it was a big hit to their bottom line, but they stuck to it because it was the right thing to do.

its illegal to own just one guinea pig in switzerland. you have to own two because they get lonely by themselves

Your body's immune system will fight to the death for you no matter what you do.You can smoke,drink and do drugs but your immune system will keep up with all of that without complaint.I like to think that whenever i feel no one likes me.

Gunfire around Dublin’s St Stephen’s Green during the [1916 Rising](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Rising) was stopped every day to allow for the ducks to be fed.

Park keeper James Kearney would enter the Green daily to feed the waterfowl. Every time he did this, the opposing sides of the Irish Citizen Army and the British forces would cease firing to allow him to do so.

Most humans are inherently good and willing to help you in any way. You've been helped by a stranger more often than you've been hurt. (Online too)

We just remember the bad ones.

Penguins can form homosexual relationships, and will even adopt orphaned penguin chicks. Happened at the Central Park Zoo, where some zookeepers gave them an abandoned egg and they ended up raising the baby to maturity. That new penguin ended up being lesbian, and paired up with another female penguin.

Zoos in Germany, the UK, and even China have copied this with other gay penguin couples and abandoned eggs.

This will probably be buried, I don't think you guys would think it's super wholesome but to me it is. When Ringo left the Beatles during the White Album sessions, the Beatles wrote him a letter, telling him to come back and even calling him the best drummer in the world. And, when he came back, George Harrison decorated his drum set in flowers. I think its sweet because even though tensions were high in the studio, you can see that they cared about each other.

Children who are deaf, and raised by deaf parents will sign repetitive sounds and words at about the same rate hearing babies acquire language. Deaf babies basically sign goo-goo ga-ga the same way hearing children babble when developing language.

You know how rain smells good? Rain doesn’t actually smell like anything, but water will amplify scents. The earth smells really good all the time, but we just don’t notice until it gets boosted by the rain.

While dogs see us as equals cats see us a clumsy deaf babies and thats why they get annoyed at us

A baby porcupine is called a porcupette.