Fun Facts for Kids

• A baby blue whale can gain two hundred pounds a day.

• A lion's roar can be heard from ten miles away.

• Mount Everest is the world's tallest mountain.

• In the Bible, dogs are mentioned 14 times and lions 89 times.

• A camel can go without water for two months.

• A tortoise can live to be more than one hundred years old.

• The chemical luciferin makes fireflies glow in the dark.

• The first bicycle, invented in 1817 by Baron von Drais, didn't have any pedals.

• The first steam powered passenger train was invented by Robert Stephenson in 1825.

• It was Elias Howe, not Whitcomb Judson, who invented the zipper.

• Pinocchio was made of pine.

• Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

• A fullgrown bear can run as fast as a horse.

• Kiwi birds are blind. They hunt by smell.

• Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.

• The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.

• Bees must collect the nectar from two thousand flowers to make one tablespoonful of honey.

• A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

• A group of geese is called a gaggle.

• Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.

• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world -- 15 inches in diameter (that's the size of a basketball).

• A group of owls is called a parliament.

• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

• A group of ravens is called a murder.

• Almost half the bones in your body are in your hands and feet.

• Libya is the only country in the world with a solid, single-colored flag -- it's green.

• New Jersey has a spoon museum featuring over 5,400 spoons from every state and almost every country.

• New Zealand is the only country that contains every type of climate in the world.

• The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.