Fun Facts For Kids That Will Blow Their Minds

The Chinese soft-shelled turtle pees from its mouth.

The average sneeze can travel at a speed of up to 100 miles per hour.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Honeybees can recognize human faces.

Belugas are the only whales that can turn their heads.

The human nose can identify over one trillion smells.

The human eye is made up of about two million working parts.

Elephants are the only mammal that can't jump.

Most caterpillars have 12 eyes (6 on each side of their tiny head).

The average person blinks about 10,000 times per day

Frogs eat their skin after they shed it.

Tigers have stripes on their skin, too.

The Queen has two birthdays.

Honey is the only food that never spoils.

Lightning can heat the air it passes through to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit. This is 5 times hotter than the sun's surface.

Frogs drink water through their skin.

A group of zebras is called a dazzle.

A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.

Each zebra has unique stripes, like a fingerprint

A blue whale’s tongue is heavier than an elephant.

Horses and cows sleep standing up.

Nearly one quarter of all the bones in your body are in your feet.

The subway trains get so packed in Tokyo during rush hour that there are professional "people pushers" to help push people into the train and make sure the doors close!

A leech has 32 brains.

A person's sense of smell is generally better later in the day than it is in the morning.

Venus is the only planet in the solar system that rotates clockwise.

Your nose gets warmer when you lie.

When babies are first born, they can’t see color.

Sesame Street is a real place — it’s the intersection of West 63rd and Broadway in New York City.

One-third of human teeth are covered by gums.

Several species in the animal kingdom have more than one heart, including octopuses and cockroaches.

Strawberries are the only fruit with seeds on the outside.

The average human eats between three and five pounds of food per day.

The White House has a private movie theater with 142 seats.

Because heat makes things expand, the Eiffel Tower sometimes grows six inches in the summer.

Your teeth are as strong as shark teeth!

Almost 10 percent of a cat’s bones are in its tail.

The wind is technically silent and only makes a sound if it blows against something.

Golf and javelin are the only two sports that have been played on the moon.

Carrots used to be mostly purple.

In Japan, watermelons are grown in boxes so they come out as squares.

Every human body has a unique smell.

Human fingerprints stay the same forever — they don’t change with age.

Snakes hear through their jawbones.