Fun Facts for Kids — Amazing Things You Didn't Know

There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way

Polar bear fur is not white — it's transparent

A snail can sleep for three years

Butterflies taste with their feet

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out

A teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh about 6 billion tons

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air

A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the Sun

A single cloud can weigh more than 1 million pounds

The Eiffel Tower grows in summer

A group of owls is called a parliament

Humans share about 60% of their DNA with bananas

Your heart beats about 100,000 times per day

A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus

Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.

Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found 3,000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still perfectly edible.

The dot over the letters 'i' and 'j' is called a 'tittle'.

Wombat poop is cube-shaped.

You can't hum while holding your nose.

A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.

Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.

A single strand of spaghetti is called a 'spaghetto'.