Random Facts

#Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."

#When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.

#There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

#Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

#The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence.

#It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.

#Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."

#When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.

#There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

#Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

#The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence.

#It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.

Jungles are overgrown with wild tangles of vegetation and dense forest.

Jungles and rainforests are similar, but while rainforests have thick canopies of tall trees that block out light, jungles allow more light in, making it easier for plants to grow.

The extra light creates dense areas of plants and vegetation that can be difficult to navigate.

Jungles are often found surrounding rainforests.

Jungles are home to a wide range of plants and animals.

Over half of the world's species live in a jungle environment.

Jungles are usually in warm places with high rainfall.

The word ‘jungle’ comes from a Sanskrit word meaning ‘uncultivated land’.

The saying “The Law of the Jungle” comes from Rudyard Kipling’s collection of stories called The Jungle Book, published in 1894.

While lions have the nickname “The King of the Jungle” they typically live in savannah and grassland.

Tarzan is a famous fictional character who is raised by apes in African jungles.

Jungles are usually in warm places with high rainfall.

The word ‘jungle’ comes from a Sanskrit word meaning ‘uncultivated land’.

The saying “The Law of the Jungle” comes from Rudyard Kipling’s collection of stories called The Jungle Book, published in 1894.

While lions have the nickname “The King of the Jungle” they typically live in savannah and grassland.

Tarzan is a famous fictional character who is raised by apes in African jungles.

Footprints and tyre tracks left behind by astronauts on the moon will stay there forever as there is no wind to blow them away.
In 2006, astronomers changed the definition of a planet. This means that Pluto is now referred to as a dwarf planet.

Because of lower gravity, a person who weighs 200 pounds on earth would only weigh 76 pounds on the surface of Mars.
The only planet that rotates on its side like a barrel is Uranus. The only planet that spins backwards relative to the others is Venus.

Some of the fastest meteoroids can travel through the solar system at a speed of around 42 kilometres per second (26 miles per second). Check out more meteoroid facts or learn the difference between comets, asteroids and meteoroids.

The first man made object sent into space was in 1957 when the Russian satellite named Sputnik was launched.

Jupiter's 4 biggest moons are named Europa, Ganymede, Callisto and Io. More Solar System moon facts.
It is because of the Sun & Moons gravity that we have high & low tides.

For a list of important space definitions take a look at our glossary of easy space and astronomy definitions for kids.

The first man made object sent into space was in 1957 when the Russian satellite named Sputnik was launched.

Jupiter's 4 biggest moons are named Europa, Ganymede, Callisto and Io. More Solar System moon facts.
It is because of the Sun & Moons gravity that we have high & low tides.

For a list of important space definitions take a look at our glossary of easy space and astronomy definitions for kids.

The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.

It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".

The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.

Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

Lucy and Linus (who where brother and sister) had another little brother named Rerun. (He sometimes played left-field on Charlie Brown's baseball team, [when he could find it!]).

The pancreas produces Insulin.

1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.

There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).

A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away.

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.