Fun Facts for Kids

The best way to increase your general knowledge is by reading up on facts. Random facts are not just a fun read, but are also a great way to know about various aspects of science. In fact, there are so many fun facts for kids that you'll be spoiled for choice! So read on to know some fun facts that are bound to leave your kids wanting for more!

Amazing Facts for Kids

• If you threw a snowball fast enough, it would totally vaporize when it hit a brick wall.
• Boron nitride is the second hardest substance known to man.
• The seeds of an Indian Lotus tree remain viable for up to 300 to 400 years.
• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar that he was carrying in his pocket melted.
• By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
• Ten minutes of one hurricane contains enough energy to match the nuclear stockpiles of the world.
• Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
• The planet Saturn has a density lower than water. So, if placed in water it would float.
• Almonds are members of the peach family.

Fun Facts About Animals

• The blue whale can produce the loudest sound that can be produced by any animal. At 188 decibels, the noise can be detected over a distance of 800 kilometers.
• Cows and horses sleep while standing.
• Giant Arctic jellyfish have tentacles that can reach over 36 meters in length.
• Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids.
• Despite the white, fluffy appearance of the fur of a Polar Bear, it actually has black skin.
• It's only the female mosquito that bites humans, and not the male.
• Cats use their whiskers to check whether a space that they are about to enter through, is too small for them to fit through or not.
• The horn of a rhinoceros is made from compacted hair, rather than bone or any other substance.
• The poison arrow frogs of South America and Central America are the most poisonous animals in the world.
• Armadillos, sloths and opossums spend about 80% of their lives sleeping.
• The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.
• Starfish don't have brains.
• Shrimp's hearts are in their heads.
• Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards.
• Porcupines float in water.
• The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
• The human brain is 80% water.
• Everyone's tongue print is different.
• A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head.

Interesting Facts for Kids

• Hershey's Kisses are called so because the machine that makes them, looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
• Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.
• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• There are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).
• Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.
• Vanilla is the world's most favorite Ice Cream flavor.
• Antarctica contains about 90 percent of the world's ice and 70 percent of it is fresh water.
• Dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
• Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
• Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
• The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element'.

So these were some fun facts for kids which surely must have made you realize that there is so much to know out there! So always keep looking!