"Mr. Rogers once got a letter from a kid telling him to make sure to feed the fish in the fish tank. Ever since he got that letter, he made sure to announce every time he fed the fish during the show."
"Alan Alda has been married for 66 years."
"Elephants think that humans are cute. When they see a human, the process in their brain is similar to ours when we see cute puppy."
"When male penguins fancy a female penguin and want to mate and build a nest with them, they search for a really nice pebble to gift (or rather offer) to the female penguin. Basically like an engagement ring."
"One name for a group of bunnies is a fluffle."
"Seahorses get “married” and it’s cute to observe."
"There is a place in Japan called “Capybara land” where there are tons of Capybaras in hot springs, where you can go and watch them."
"I was on vacation in Germany over spring break. 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."
"As a linguist I have friends who study lots of lesser-known languages. One works on a language called Otomi spoken in central Mexico. One day he had a native speaker teach him the word for brother. Turns out it’s a verb in that language. So, not “he’s my brother” but “he brothers me”. And the verb is reflexive – “we brother each other”. But then he noticed it was actually a homophone of the verb for “walk”. So to say “he’s my brother” in Otomi, you literally say “We walk together”."
"There’s a post office at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, because there’s people who live down there, and the post office is required to deliver the mail to every citizen in the U.S."
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