- Because everyone wants to hear more random fun facts.
Did you know the most common eye color is brown? Here are more fun facts for kids, that really anyone will enjoy.
- Skin is the largest organ on the body.
- It takes your body about 12 hours to digest food.
- Your nose won’t grow when you lie, but it does get warmer.
- Almost half of the bones in the human body are in your hands and your feet.
- Humming is harder if you hold your nose.
- Strawberries are the only fruit where the seeds are on the outside.
- Bananas contain potassium, meaning they’re radioactive.
- Ripe cranberries can bounce like a ball. This has got to be one of the most fun facts for kids or for anyone who loves fun facts.
- Apples are technically a part of the rose family.
- Peanuts are technically legumes, which is the bean family.
- Every 2.5 seconds, a bottle of Nutella is sold.
- French Fries are Belgian, not French.
- Avocados and tomatoes are not actually vegetables, they are fruits.
- Fruit Loops are all the same flavor, even though the color would suggest otherwise.
- Under a black light, ripe bananas look blue.
- If you think blue cheese tastes moldy, it’s because it is. The blue part of the cheese is literal mold.
- Ketchup was sold as a cure to stomach illnesses in the 1830’s.
- McDonald’s create a bubblegum flavored broccoli for the Happy Meals but after taste testing them with real kids, they didn’t make it to the menu. Gross.
- Peanut butter doesn’t actually have butter in it.
- Mexicans eat treats like chocolate-covered ants, sometimes. Did you know this as one of the fun facts for kids.
- There is a lemon that’s a baboon lemon.
- Lightning can strike twice, so watch out!
- There are still traces of Neil Armstrong’s footprints on the moon today.
- Neptune’s days are 16 hours long.
- Over half of the world’s oxygen is produced by plankton, seaweed and other ocean organisms.
- White in itself isn’t a color, but is the absence of all color.
- Wind is actually silent and what you hear is the wind blowing against different objects.
- Clouds are heavier than anyone thought and can actually weigh over a million pounds.
- All of the planets spin counterclockwise, except Venus. Is this one of the fun facts for kids that you knew?
- There are about 1,500 active volcanoes in the world.
- You weigh less on the moon than on Earth because of gravity.
- One season on Saturn lasts for about seven Earth years. Can you imagine?
- The Earth’s core has enough gold to cover the planet.
- Urine was used as mouthwash by the Romans.
- Cleopatra was Grecian, not Egyptian. This is probably one of the fun facts for kids that you didn’t know.
- The Statue of Liberty was supposed to be in the Suez Canal.
- Corn cobs were used as toilet paper for early Americans.
- An elementary schooler designed the current American flag in 1958.
- Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was a champion wrestler? Before he went on to be an American president and all.
- It was popular during the Victorian era that people would take pictures of their loved ones after they had died.
- John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died July 4th, 1826, only hours apart.
- In Ancient Egypt, they would put dead mice in their mouths to help toothaches.
- Beethoven the musical genius was not also a math genius, so much so that he never learned how to multiply or divide.
What’s you favorites out of the fun facts for kids? Let me know in the comments!