- What's your favorite fun fact you remember as a kid?
These fun facts for kids are really fun facts for everyone. Did you know that there were square watermelons in the world?
- You will spend an average of 25 years sleeping in your lifetime.
- There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.
- Farts are fast and travel about 10 feet per second or almost seven miles an
hour. - Knocker-uppers were the “alarms” that people used before there were alarms. People were paid to knock on the windows of others to wake them up.
- The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve steel.
- Most people cannot lick their elbows. Try this with kids and they will know the truth about this as one of the fun facts for kids.
- The human brain can not literally feel pain.
- Humans ears and noses never stop growing.
- A trillion different scents can be detected by your nose.
- The name hashtag only applies to the # symbol because of social media. The real name for the # is octrothorpe.
- There are 100 folds in the folds of a chef’s hat and they stand for the 100 different ways to cook an egg.
- The country of Scotland has more than 421 words for snow.
- Each person has their own unique tongue print making everyone’s different from everyone else’s.
- If you want to try something different, you can buy a square watermelon in Japan.
- The fear of numbers is arithmophobia.
- Girls have more taste buds than boys.
- Your eyes close every time you sneeze.
- Movie trailers originally played after the movie.
- There are a total of 293 different ways to make change for a dollar. The number four is the only number to have the same amount of letters as its value.
- J was the last letter added to the alphabet.
- Oscar the Grouch from the Sesame Street was originally orange in color, not green.
- Heat makes iron expand and therefore, the Eiffel Tower is actually six inches taller in the summer.
- Humans on average lose about 50 to 100 hairs everyday.
- Adults have less bones than a human baby.
- A cough is faster than a fart at about 60 miles per hour but the sneeze is fastest of all at over 100 mph.
- People often fart after they die. Do you think this is a creepy or fun as fun facts for kids?
- Newborn babies are colorblind, meaning when they’re born they can only see in black and white.
- The letter “Q” doesn’t appear in any US State as a part of its name.
- No number before the number 1,000 has the letter “a” when spelled out.
- The five-cent coin a nickel is made of 25% nickel and 75% copper.
- All British armored vehicles have the equipment needed to make tea.
- Wear yellow underwear on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day in Peru for good luck!
- A woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s heart.
- A human heart beats 115,000 times a day.
- If you’re ever at the top of Mount Everest, you should know you can get cell phone coverage up there.
- The White House has a movie theater with enough seats for 42 people.
- Play-Doh didn’t come out as a child’s toy and was originally used as wallpaper cleaner. This is one of the most random fun facts for kids?
- You can’t smell while you’re sleeping.
- Human teeth are as strong as shark teeth.