100 Fun facts all kids must know

Unleash the wonder with these unbelievable facts that will leave you astonished and amused:

1. It's impossible for most people to lick their own elbow.

2. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

3. A shrimp's heart is in its head.

4. It's physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

5. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is believed to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

6. If you sneeze too hard, you could fracture a rib.

7. Wearing headphones for just an hour could increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

8. In the course of an average lifetime, while sleeping you might eat around 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders, or more.

9. Some lipsticks contain fish scales.

10. Cat urine glows under a black-light.

11. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

12. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

13. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

14. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing (when using the proper position of the hands on the keyboard; Hunting and pecking doesn't count!).

15. A shark is the only known fish that can blink with both eyes.

16. The longest one-syllable words in the English language are "scraunched" and "strengthed." Some suggest that "squirreled" could be included, but squirrel is intended to be pronounced as two syllables (squir-rel) according to most dictionaries. "Screeched" and "strengths" are two other long one-syllable words, but they only have 9 letters.

17. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

18. Almonds are a member of the peach family.

19. Maine is the only state that has a one-syllable name.

20. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

21. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula".

22. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

23. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

24. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

25. In many advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

26. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life".

27. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

28. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

29. Most people fall asleep in seven minutes.

30. Ants never sleep.

31. The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer due to thermal expansion.

32. Octopuses have three hearts.

33. Honey never spoils; archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible.

34. Wombat poop is cube-shaped, preventing it from rolling away.

35. The first oranges weren't orange; they were green.

36. The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896, lasting only 38 minutes.

37. Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

38. There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe.

39. The world's largest desert is Antarctica.

40. On Venus, a day is longer than a year; Venus rotates on its axis incredibly slowly, taking about 243 Earth days to complete one rotation.

41. Despite being a diverse and vast world, some unbelievable facts hold true for various creatures and phenomena.

42. More people are killed by coconuts falling on their heads than by shark attacks.

43. Humans and giraffes have the same number of neck vertebrae.

44. Apples, like pears and plums, belong to the rose family.

45. Worms communicate by snuggling together.

46. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time, equivalent to 1/100th of a second.

47. A group of flamingos is called a "flamboyance."

48. Only female mosquitoes bite; they need the protein from blood to develop their eggs.

49. The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.

50. Octopuses have three hearts; two pump blood to the gills, and one pumps it to the rest of the body.

51. Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backward.

52. Cheetahs can go from 0 to 60 mph in just three seconds.

53. The moon is gradually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.

54. More people are killed by coconuts falling on their heads than by shark attacks.

55. Humans and giraffes have the same number of neck vertebrae.

56. Apples, like pears and plums, belong to the rose family.

57. Worms communicate by snuggling together.

58. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time, equivalent to 1/100th of a second.

59. A group of flamingos is called a "flamboyance."

60. Only female mosquitoes bite; they need the protein from blood to develop their eggs.

61. The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.

62. The Nobel Peace Prize is named after Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.

63. Dynamite production requires peanuts as one of its components.

64. The largest living organism globally is a fungus in Oregon, spanning 2,200 acres and still growing.

65. The shortest recorded conflict in history lasted approximately 38 minutes.

66. Glass balls bounce higher than rubber ones.

67. Vatican City, covering 0.2 square miles, holds the title of the world's smallest nation.

68. On average, people spend about two weeks of their lives waiting at traffic lights.

69. Astronauts' first food in orbit was applesauce.

70. The water cycle consists of four stages: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection.

71. Rainfall today may have previously fallen as rain days, weeks, months, or even years ago.

72. In a year, there are 31,556,926 seconds.

73. Diet soda cans float in water, while regular soda cans sink.

74. Venus' snow is composed of metal.

75. The Welsh town Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll llantysiliogogogoch holds the record for the most challenging pronunciation.

76. Rust on Mars' surface gives the planet a red appearance.

77. A tsunami cannot be outrun by a jet plane.

78. In a group of 23 people, there's a 50% chance of two sharing the same birthday, a seemingly improbable statistic.

79. American Black bears display various colors, including blonde, cinnamon, brown, white, and silver-blue, in addition to black.

80. Cold temperatures can accelerate fingernail growth.

81. A sneeze often exceeds 100 mph, while a cough averages around 60 mph.

82. Your feet produce a pint of sweat daily.

83. The brain consumes 20% of the oxygen you breathe.

84. All newborns have blue eyes at birth.

85. Before 1913, parents could use postal services to send their children to Grandma's house.

86. Anatidaephobia is the fear that a duck is watching you.

87. In a group of 23, there's a 50% chance of two individuals sharing a birthday. With 367 people, the probability rises to 100%, and for a 99.9% chance, only 70 people are needed.

88. A blue whale's tongue is heavier than an elephant.

89. A crab's taste buds are on their feet.

90. The American lobster can live to be 20 years old.

91. No two spot patterns on a whale shark are the same — they are as unique as fingerprints.

92. Tomatoes are the most eaten fruit in the world.

93. Bananas are technically herbs.

94. Potatoes were the first vegetable to be grown in space.

95. Strawberries and raspberries wear their seeds on the outside.

96. Dinosaur fossils have been found on all seven continents.

97. Presently, over 700 dinosaurs have been identified and named, however, scientists believe there are many more to be discovered.

98. Snakes, crocodiles and bees were just a few of the animals who lived alongside dinosaurs.

99. The dinosaur with the longest name is Micropachycephalosaurus.

100. A Nigersaurus has an unusual skull containing as many as 500 slender teeth.