FunFacts 

 

Sign up to be an official Mad Scientist!     

To send an email click Here!

 

Brand new did you know that….

  • An Ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  • Everyone's tongue print is different.
  • The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
  • A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
  • Ants do not sleep.
  • The human brain is 80% water.
  • If you could drive to the sun-- at 55 miles/ hour-- it would take about 193 years. 
  • The temperature can be determined by counting the number of cricket chirps in fourteen seconds and adding 40.

More did you know that...

  • Giraffes have no vocal chords
  • Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur
  • When you blush, your stomach lining also reddens
  • 93% of a watermelon is water
  • No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times
  • One year on Mars is equivalent to 2 years on Earth
  • A pregnant goldfish is called a twit 

Websites for kids:

http://madscience.org

http://www.timeforkids.com

http://www.funbrain.com

http://www.yucky.kids.discovery.com