There are some things you never forget. So here is a list of random yet educational facts that are wild enough to keep a child’s attention and hold in their memories for years to come:
- The average person will spend about six months of their life dreaming.
- The top of the Empire State Building was originally designed to be a landing spot for Zeppelins (blimps).
- The world’s largest gummy worm weighs 3 pounds and is 6 feet long.
- The Statue of Liberty’s torch is coated in 24k gold.
- It would take you about 200 days to eat your way through the Great Wall of China.
- The world’s oldest surviving piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old.
- You can actually see the Great Wall of China from space.
- It takes about 11 gallons of water to flush a toilet.
- Over 2 billion ice pops are sold each year in the US alone.
Animal Facts
- In France, it is against the law to name a pig Napoleon.
- There are more than 24,000 types of ladybugs in the world.
- There are more plastic flamingos in the world than there are real flamingos.
- A baby panda is about the size of a stick of butter at birth.
- A hummingbird flaps its wings up to 200 times per second.
- A shark can sense a drop in blood pressure from more than a mile away.
Science Facts
- Every day, the sun makes enough energy to power the entire world for one year.
- If you took all the blood vessels out of your body and laid them end to end, they would stretch about 96,000 miles. That’s almost four times around the Earth!
- There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
- A single human hair can hold up to 6.6 lb.
- Most of the dust in your home is actually made from dead skin cells.
- A single cloud can weigh as much as 1 million pounds.
- A single bolt of lightning contains enough energy to toast 100,000 pieces of bread.
- It rains diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter.
- A single raindrop can contain up to 50 million bacteria.
- A human’s heart beats around 100,000 times per day.