Kids love fun facts! So much that they remember these random fun facts long after and take great pride at bragging about them in trivia question sessions.
They are always eager to learn interesting facts (or mind bending!) to share among friends and family.
To sate your and their thirst for weird but true entertaining facts, we have rounded up this list of 229 amazing fun facts for kids that you may find hard to believe and will definitely bemuse everyone.
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- Weird Facts About Weather
- Fun Facts About Animals
- Interesting Food Facts
- Weird But True Facts
- Amazing Human Body Facts
- History Fun Facts
- Geography Fun Facts for Kids
- Sports Facts For Kids
- Random Science Facts
Weird Facts About Weather
1. Did you know there are nearly 2,000 thunderstorms on Earth every minute?
2. Clouds look white because they are reflecting sunlight from above them.
3. A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the sun!!
4. The fastest recorded raindrop travelled at the speed of 18 mph!
5. Did you know that you can estimate the temperature of a place by the number of times some crickets chirp in a second? Weird but true!!
6. An avalanche can travel upto the speed of 80 mph!
Animal Fun Facts For Kids
7. Porcupines can float! Thanks to the hollow structure of their quills!
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8. Owls can’t move their eyeballs! Instead they move their neck to look around.
9. Octopuses have blue blood, three hearts and nine brains!
10. Believe it or not, Caterpillars have 12 eyes, which are also called Ocelli! These eyes are located in two groups of 6 eyes on each side of their head.
11. A hippo’s lips are nearly two feet wide, from left to right! They can open their massive mouths upto 150 degrees or 4 feet.
12. A coyote can hear a mouse moving almost a foot under the snow!!
13. Cockroaches can live for a week without their heads!
14. Did you know some salamanders can regrow their tails, legs and even parts of their eyes!!
15. The female hummingbird builds the world’s smallest bird’s nest – about the size of a walnut!
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16. Kangaroos can’t walk backwards. Presence of thick, long and muscular tail restricts them from doing so.
17. Camel Fact – Its a myth that the camel’s hump stores water! Rather it stores fat that is used for nourishment when the food is scarce.
18. A chameleon’s tongue is at least as long as its body! Sometimes even twice as long as its body, depending on the species.
19. Weird but true – Cockroaches have white blood!
20. Cows can walk up the stairs by themselves but can’t get down without help!
21. Did you know slugs have four noses?!
22. A male Ostrich can roar like a Lion! Weird but true…
23. Hummingbirds can fly backwards!
24. A prawn’s heart is located on its thorax that is at the bottom of its head!
25. Bees are found everywhere in the world except Antarctica.
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26. Weird but true – Horses and cows can sleep lightly while standing up!
27. Insects have inhabited the Earth for about 350 million years while humans have been here for only 300,000 years.
28. Did you know Monkeys can go bald in old age, just like humans?!
29. There are no male or female earthworms. All earthworms have both male and female parts.
30. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out! A membrane holds their tongue in place on the roof of their mouth so it does not move.
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31. Dogs can hear 10 times better than humans!
32. It’s physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky…weird but true!
33. Did you know an ostrich’s brain is smaller than it’s eye!! Their large eyes help them adapt to their terrestrial lifestyle, spotting danger from a great distance.
34. Cows have four stomachs to help it to digest food!
35. Sea Lions are the only animals that can clap to a beat.
36. Weird but true – Only male toads croak!
37. Did you know a hippopotamus can run faster than a man? They are capable of running at a speed of 30 km/hr over short distances.
38. Did you know Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump! Their one leg is always on the ground even while running.
39. Did you know Shark does not have bones? Instead its skeleton is made of cartilage.
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40. Squid, Octopus, Horseshoe crabs have blue blood!!
41. Every dog’s nose and paw print is unique – much like a human fingerprint!
42. Weird but true – Cat urine glows under a black light!
43. Nearly 10 percent of all of a cat’s bones are in its tail. Out of the total of 230 bones, 23 are in its tail.
44. A fox uses its tail to communicate with other foxes.
45. Snails take the longest naps with some lasting as long as three years. They can hibernate even longer if the conditions are not favourable for waking up.
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46. Some fish can cough! Weird but true! It helps in cleaning the gills of accumulated particulate matter. Fishes can even yawn and burp!
47. Interesting fact about cats is that they can’t taste anything that is sweet.
48. The smallest mammal on the Earth is Bumblebee Bat! They could weigh as low as just 2 grams and measure upto 1 to 1.3 inches in length.
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49. Bats are the only mammals that can fly.
50. Did you know Panda droppings could be recycled into paper!
51. A blue whale’s heart can weigh upto 400 pounds! That is about 640 times heavier than a human heart.
52. A beefalo is a part cow, part bison!
53. Believe it or not, Gorilla’s burp when they are happy! What a way to express happiness!
54. Did you know Oarfish is the biggest bony fish! Also known as doomsday fish, this deep water fish can grow upto 36 feet long!
54. Palaeontologists have discovered nearly 700 species of extinct dinosaurs!
55. The colossal squid has the largest eyes in the world. It could measure upto 10 inches in diameter that is about the size of a football.
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56. Anteaters have no teeth! Weird but true! They use their long tongues to lap up food.
57. Did you know baby elephants suck their trunks (much like human babies suck their thumbs) for comfort?
58. Weird but true…all clownfish are born male. They have the ability to change their sex later on and that change is irreversible!!
59. Did you know sea otters hold hands as they sleep? It keeps them from floating away in the sea while they are asleep.
60. Mystery snails can regenerate their eyes completely after amputation through the mid-eyestalk!
61. Some dinosaurs had feathers – strange but true!!
62. The Goliath frog from Western Africa can grow up to 16 inches long and weighs more than 7 pounds!
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63. A pet hamster can run up to 6 miles a night on a wheel.
64. Some hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!
65. Here is another funny random fact for kids – A common garden snail has nearly 14000 teeth!! Astounding, right?
66. Butterflies taste with their feet! They have taste receptor in their legs that help them to determine if the food source is good for laying eggs and feeding or not.
67. Did you know a grizzly bear can run as fast as a horse?
68. Dolphins have teeth but they do not chew their food. They use their teeth to just grab and bite their prey.
69. Tyrannosaurus Rex was nearly 40 feet long and 12 feet high!! That’s massive!
70. Sloths are excellent swimmers and can hold their breath for upto forty minutes underwater!!
71. Dogs can smell nearly 100,000 times better than humans!!
72. One of the interesting facts about rabbits is that they are social creatures and would prefer to live in groups called colonies or warrens. They can become sad and depressed when kept in isolation.
Interesting Food Facts For Kids
73. Did you know you can buy pyramid shaped watermelons in Japan!
74. The world’s longest French fry is 34-inches long.
75. Ice cream was once called “cream ice.”
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76. It takes about 50 licks to finish just one scoop of ice cream.
77. Did you know ketchup was once sold as a medicine?
78. The world’s heaviest carrot weighed 10.7kg!
79. Did you know ripe cranberries can bounce like a ball.
80. Believe it or not, Peanuts are not nuts! They are part of the legumes family.
81. French fries originated in Belgium, not France.
82. Strange but true…Potatoes were once used as currency on the South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha!!
83. Almonds are members of the peach family.
84. First Candy Canes had no stripes at all! Can you believe that?
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85. Apples are one-quarter air. No wonder why they float!
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86. Did you know the Eiffel Tower grows taller every summer and shrinks back in winter?!
87. Before 1913, it was possible for parents to mail their kids to their grandparents through postal services. Imagine being mailed to your grandparent’s house!!
88. Number four is the only one with the same amount of letters!
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89. Did you know Easter always falls between March 22 and April 25?!
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90. An average yawn is nearly six seconds long.
91. New Zealand has more sheep than people.
92. Weird but true – Nearly 75% of the human brain comprises of water!
93. Did you know some perfumes actually have whale poop in them? Weird but true!
94. Russia is just around 2.5 miles away from Alaska! Well, that is the distance between two small islands in the Bering Strait, namely, Big Diomede (owned by Russia) and Little Diomede (owned by the US)!
95. Believe it or not – In Wales, United Kingdom, it is possible to compete in an underwater mountain bike race!!
96. There are more television sets in the United States of America than the number of people in the United Kingdom.
97. It is illegal to stand within 90 metres of distance from the Queen without socks on.
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98. Australia is home to 11 per cent of the world’s 6,300 reptile species making it the continent with the most number of reptiles!
99. Weird but true – The opposite sides of the dice always add up to seven!!
100. The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is believed to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
101. Vatican City with the land area of around 0.49 sq. km. is the smallest country in the world.
102. Over 1 billion hours of YouTube videos are watched every day! That’s more than the amount of Netflix and Facebook videos combined together!
103. According to UNESCO estimates, nearly 2.2 million books are published every year! That’s massive!!
104. Tomatoes are actually fruits, not vegetables!!
105. A jar of Nutella sells every 2.5 seconds!
106. Did you know rubber bands last longer when refrigerated?!
107. The most expensive book in the world was sold at a whopping price of $30.8 million to Bill Gates. It was written by Italian polymath Leonardo Da Vinci.
108. Believe it or not but some cars can run on used french fries oil!
109. Cuba and North Korea are the only countries in the world where you cannot buy or sell Coca-Cola.
110. You can buy a piece of meteorite from eBay…Weird but true!
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Amazing Human Body Facts for Kids
111. There are a billion bacteria in your mouth at any time!
112. Every minute, your entire blood passes through your heart!
113. Human eyes are made of nearly 2 million working parts.
114. Your heart beats about 115,000 times every day.
115. Humans are the only animals with chins.
116. Women’s hearts beat faster than men’s.
117. Human Eyes can detect about 10 million different colours!
118. Wearing headphones for just an hour could increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
119. Human blood is as salty as the ocean. Weird but true…
120. Fingernails can grow four times faster than toenails.
121. Humans not only have unique fingerprints but also unique tongue-prints!
122. Most people fall asleep in seven minutes.
123. Eyelashes can live for about 150 days before falling out.
124. In the course of an average lifetime, you might eat around 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders, or more while sleeping.
125. You can’t smell anything while asleep!
126. You fart on average 14 times a day, and each fart travels from your body at 7 mph.
127. Did you know you use 200 different muscles in the body to walk?!
128. Your skin is the largest body organ!
129. Did you know you are as tall as the length of your arms stretched out?
130. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
131. Did you know It is impossible to lick your own elbow?!
132. Your nose and ears keep growing your entire life!
133. Your heart is about the same size as your fist.
134. The human body is made up of about 724 trillion cells!
135. Our nose is a natural lie detector…it gets warmer as we lie! Weird but true!
History Fun Facts For Kids
136. Babe Ruth was the first baseball player to hit a home run in the All-Star game, at Chicago’s Comiskey Park in 1933.
137. Black Death wiped out nearly 75 million Europeans, that’s more than one-third of Europe’s population, in the Middle Ages!
138. Pineapples were a status symbol in 18th century’s England! Weird but true…
139. Mayan people worshipped turkeys as Gods!! Weird but true…
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140. Can you believe pork rinds were a favourite renaissance snack!
141. If you would unwrap an Egyptian Mummy, it’s bandages can stretch upto 1.6km! Weird but true…
142. The Pyramid of Khufu at Giza is the largest Egyptian pyramid and weighs as much as 16 Empire State buildings!
143. Did you know theatre was invented by ancient Greeks?!
144. Ancient Egyptians had more than 2,000 deities whom they worshipped!
145. Hedy Lamarr, the American actress who starred in 30 films, was also an inventor! She co-invented an early version of frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication, which paved the way to modern day Wi-Fi.
146. It took nearly 1500 years to build Stonehenge.
147. Spain, Sweden and Switzerland remained neutral in World War -II and did not join any side.
148. Did you know Ancient Rome not only had male gladiators but also female gladiators?! A female gladiator was called a Gladiatrix, or Gladiatrices.
149. Ching Shih is believed to be the world’s most successful pirate in history and was a woman!
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150. George Washington opened a whiskey distillery after his presidential term.
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151. Ancient Greeks believed redheads become vampires after death!
152. Weird but true – The ancient Romans often used stale urine as mouthwash!! Yuck!!
153. India was the only source of diamonds till 1896!
154. Did you know Easter Island houses 887 giant head statues that were carved nearly 2000 years ago?!
155. Did you know it was popular for Viking men to dye their hair blonde?! Some went further and even dyed their beards!
156. Abraham Lincoln – the 16th American President was a licensed bartender. He was also a wrestling champion too!
157. Frida Kahlo, the famous Mexican painter, sketched and painted 143 paintings, out of which 55 were self-portraits.
158. Weird but true – At ancient Olympics, athletes performed naked!
159. Russia ran out of vodka while celebrating the end of World War II! The party lasted for nearly 22 hours.
160. Did you know before becoming the 40th American President, Ronald Wilson Reagan served as a lifeguard and saved around 77 people from drowning!
161. Did you know people made clothes out of food sacks during the Great Depression?
Geography Facts For Kids
162. Amazon is the biggest river in the world and carries one-fifth of all the river water on Earth.
163. Antarctic desert is the largest desert in the world and is referred to as the Polar desert.
164. The Pacific Ocean is the biggest and deepest ocean in the world. It can fit all the landmass into it! Crazy but true!
165. Greenland is the largest island in the world.
166. Weird but true – Russia spans 11 time zones!
167. Africa is the only continent that covers all four hemispheres.
168. The nation of Kiribati is the only country to cover all four hemispheres.
169. Point Nemo in the South Pacific Ocean is the farthest point from land on Earth. It is 2688 km away from the nearest landmass.
170. Iguazu Falls, located in Argentina and Brazil, is the largest waterfall system in the world. It spans nearly 3 km and has 275 vertical drops!
171. Mawsynram in Meghalaya, India is the world’s rainiest place with an average annual rainfall of 11,871 mm.
172. Atacama Desert, Chile is the world’s driest place with less than 1mm of annual average precipitation.
173. The African continent has the most number of countries, totalling to 54 nations!
174. Mount Thor on Baffin Island, Canada, has Earth’s greatest vertical drop of 1250 m!
175. D River in Oregon, USA is the shortest river in the world. It is only 37 m long.
176. Congo River, Zaire is the deepest river of the world with a depth of 219.5m!
177. The world’s highest waterfall is Angel Falls, Venezuela, South America. It is 979 m high!
178. The biggest freshwater lake by surface area is Lake Superior of North America. It is jointly shared by Canada and the United States and covers 82,100 square km.
179. Lake Baikal of Russia is the biggest freshwater lake by volume.
180. Believe it or not but the Dead Sea is actually a saltwater lake!
181. Tibetan Plateau, Asia is the world’s highest and largest plateau. It is nearly four times the size of Texas!
182. The Red Sea is the saltiest sea in the world!
183. Mauna Loa is the biggest active volcano on Earth.
184. Iceland is the biggest volcanic island in the world.
185. The Nile is the longest river in the world and is 6,600 km long.
186. The Sahara desert in Africa is the largest hot desert in the world.
187. Pumice stone, a type of igneous rock, is so light that it floats in water.
188. The Grand Canyon of the USA is the largest canyon in the world.
189. Continent of Antarctica has no countries! Weird but true!
190. Canada and the United States of America share the longest international border, which spans about 8,890 km.
191. Mauna Kea is the highest mountain on the ocean bed. It is a staggering 10,000m high with nearly 6000m submerged in the Pacific Ocean. To put it into perspective, Mount Everest is 8,800 m high.
Sports Facts For Kids
192. LeBron James, an American professional basketball player, is the highest NBA (National Basketball Association) scorer with 49,000 career points!
193. Christiano Ronaldo holds the record for the highest goal scorer in the history of football with 879 career goals!
194. The NBA logo features the silhouette of Jerry West – a former Laker with 25,192 points!
195. In Thailand, kite flying is a major league sport!
196. Barry Bonds holds the Major League Baseball record with 762 home runs.
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197. Pittsburgh is the only American city whose all major-league sports teams wear the same colors – Black & yellow!
198. California has the most major professional sports teams with a total of 21 franchises.
199. Soccer is the most popular team sport in the world.
200. Tennis is the most popular individual sport in the world.
201. The first Summer Olympics Games were hosted by Athens, Greece in 1896 with 14 participating countries.
202. American football is the most-watched sport in the United States.
203. Manon Rhéaume, a Canadian former ice hockey goaltender, is the first and only woman to play in National Hockey League game!
204. Michael Jordan was not selected for the high school basketball team!
205. The Olympic rings represent all participating nations. At least one of five colours of the rings are found on every flag of the participating nations!
206. Michael Phelps, an American former competitive swimmer, is the most decorated Olympian to win 23 Olympic gold medals – the most gold medals won by any athlete! He won 28 medals in total.
207. Wayne Gretzky holds the record of National Hockey League’s all-time leading goal scorer with a total of 894 goals! He also holds the record for most goals in a NHL season with his 92 goals in the 1981-82 season.
208. Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr, popularly known as Tom Brady, holds the title for most Super Bowl wins -7 in total, by any player in NFL history!
209. John Isner and Nicolas Mahut hold the record for playing the longest tennis match in the history of the game. It lasted for 11 hours and 5 minutes, over three days, at 2010 Wimbledon Championship! John Isner won the match with 6-4, 3-6, 6-7(7), 7-6(3), 70-68.
210. There are a total of 40 sports in the Olympics!
211. Olympics have been cancelled thrice – in 1916, 1940, and 1944 due to World War I and World War II.
212. Did you know all Major League Baseball umpires are required to wear black underwear? That’s to protect them just in case their pants split!!
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213. Golf became the first sport ever to be played on the surface of the moon when Apollo 14 astronaut, Alan Shepard hit a golf ball on the lunar surface with a makeshift 6-iron in 1971. Crazy but true!!
Random Science Facts
214. Madam Curie is the only person to win Nobel prizes in both physics and chemistry!
215. The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989!
216. Brain is the fattiest human organ comprising nearly 60% fat!
217. Most sweat glands in the human body are located at the foot soles.
218. Bananas are radioactive, thanks to their high Potassium level!
219. Tungsten is the hardest metal!
220. Friends are genetically more similar than strangers! Strange but true!
221. Letter J does not appear on the periodic table!
222. Hexagon is the most common shape in nature!
223. Nitrogen is the most abundant gas comprising 78% of Earth’s atmosphere.
224. Bromine & Mercury are the only two elements that maintain a liquid state at room temperature.
225. Strange but true – It is impossible to fold a piece of A4 paper more than eight times!!
226. Carbon has more than 40 allotropes – more than any other element!
227. AB negative (AB-) is the rarest blood group in the world!
228. Did you know Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the human body?!
229. Donna Jean Wilde holds the record of longest place by a woman with 4 hours 30 minutes and 11 seconds!
FAQ
1. A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun!
2. Hummingbirds can fly backwards.
3. Mars has blue sunsets!
4. Number four is the only one with the same amount of letters!
5. Did you know the Eiffel Tower grows taller every summer and shrinks back in winter?!
1. Your skin is the largest body organ!
2. Most people cannot lick their elbows.
3. French fries originated in Belgium, not France.
4. Gorillas burp when they are happy!
5. Hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
1. Nearly 75% of the human brain comprises of water!
2. Cuba and North Korea are the only countries in the world where you cannot buy or sell Coca-Cola.
3. There are a billion bacteria in your mouth at any time!
4. Kangaroos can’t walk backwards.
5. Human blood is as salty as the ocean.
We bet you enjoyed this list of interesting facts for kids as much as we enjoyed penning them. These random facts for kids are just perfect ice-breakers and great fun way to stimulate your kid’s brain!
Just sprinkle these weird but true facts in your daily conversations with kids and watch your kids build their brain power!
