The Happiest Facts In The World

The remedy to your bad day is just a fun fact away.

When Reddit user AaronM97 was feeling blue, he asked the community to share a happy fact that would cheer him up. The post lit up with responses, receiving more than 11,000 comments containing fun and happy facts that make the world feel a little lighter.

"I can't express how thankful I am to everyone that commented," the user later wrote on the thread. "I've laughed, I've smiled, I've felt better than I have in a damn long time. So thank you to each and every one who took the time to put a smile on my face."

Scroll through the list below to check out some of the world's happiest facts according to Reddit users. Then tell us some of your favorite happy facts in the comments section.

If you were to take a live sea sponge, blenderize it, then leave the sea sponge smoothie to sit over night. When you woke up in the morning, you'd find that the surviving sea sponge cells have found each other and started to reform a new sea sponge.

(via fuzzum111)

Our world is awesome man. Check this out for example: A six-year old in UK once wrote to the Railroad Museum to apply for a job there. This is what he wrote them: "I have an electric train track. I am good on my train track. I can control two trains at once." They invited him and named him "Director of Fun".

(via vmasto)

Penguins only have one mate their entire life and “propose” by giving their mate a pebble.

(via BabyBlackout19)

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

(via -eDgAR-)

The man who does Winnie the Pooh's voice spends some of his spare time ringing up children in the cancer wards of hospitals putting on Winnie's voice and telling them how much he loves them and how brave they are.

(via SirNerd)

A baby puffin is called a puffling.

(via O2C)

For a brief moment in time, you were a moment in someone's life. A mere extra, passing through their thoughts in milliseconds, but milliseconds of their story nonetheless. For every person you've exchanged eye contact with, you have made a contribution to their existence, be it significant or not.

(via MaleCra)