60 of the world’s happiest facts

1. A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.

2. If you fake laugh long enough you’ll start to really laugh, really, really hard.

4. The Beatles used the word “love” 613 times throughout their career.

5. These websites exist.

7. On the day of his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. had a pillow-fight in his motel room.

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

12. There’s an animal called a Dik Dik. And it’s the cutest antelope you’ll ever see.

 

13. Despite high infant mortality rates and lower life expectancies, not one of your direct ancestors died childless.

15. Otters hold hands when sleeping so they don’t drift away from each other.

17. There’s a type of jellyfish that lives forever.

18. Wayne Allwine (the voice of Mickey Mouse) and Russi Taylor (the voice of Minnie Mouse) were married in real life.

20. The clitoris has 8000 nerve fibres, double that of the penis, and is the only organ in the body, which has evolved purely for pleasure.

21. Butterflies can taste with their feet.

22. For someone, somewhere in the world, today is the most amazing day of their life.

26. Sea horses mate for life, are completely faithful and travel together by holding on to each others tails.

28. If you say “my cocaine” you sound like Michael Caine saying his own name.

34. Cows have best friends.

35. Neurologically speaking, seeing somebody else smile actually makes you happier.

38. Once your brain realizes that you’re dying, it releases DMT, one of the most powerful known psychedelics. This dilates your perception of time and allowing you to live inside your own mind for hours or even days.

39. No matter how long you live there will always be an amazing new food for you try.

42. A pig’s orgasms last thirty minutes.

43. We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.

45. Spinner dolphins sleep in pairs, one with the left hemisphere asleep, the other with the right. They each keep watch with one eye and half a brain. They are known to sleep-mate for life.

47. Cows produce the most milk when listening to the song Everybody Hurts by REM.

48. Somewhere, someone is losing their virginity right now.

51. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

52. Happiness is a skill. You can learn it and it’s not hard.

54. Baby rabbits are called kittens.

55. Baby puffins are called pufflings.

56. Costa Rica is statistically the happiest nation on Earth.

58. 2013 is the first year since 1987 that consists for four different digits.

60. If you blend a sea sponge, it will re-form back into a sea sponge.

 

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