Facts for Ages 5–7
230 facts perfect for this age group
Table tennis was originally called "whiff-whaff" in England in the 1880s.
The smallest dinosaur eggs ever found were about the size of a golf ball.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
The Sahara Desert is almost as big as the entire United States.
Play-Doh was originally invented as a wallpaper cleaner before kids started playing with it.
The fastest goal in professional soccer history was scored in just 2.1 seconds after kickoff.
Fortune cookies were actually invented in California, not in China.
Tomatoes are the most eaten fruit in the world — yes, they're technically a fruit, not a vegetable!
Hermit crabs line up from biggest to smallest and swap shells one by one in a chain.
The largest hailstone ever found in the U.S. was 8 inches across — bigger than a softball.
In 1995, potatoes became the first food to be grown in space.
Tennis balls are yellow because it's the easiest colour to see on television — before 1972, they were white.
The Pacific Ocean is so big that it covers more area than all the land on Earth combined.
A rainbow is actually a full circle, but we usually only see half of it because the ground gets in the way.
Your middle fingernail grows the fastest, and your thumbnail grows the slowest.
Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was reportedly afraid of mice.
Sea cucumbers breathe through their bum.
There are zero bridges crossing the Amazon River.
Your heart beats about 100,000 times every single day.
Cinnamon is actually the inner bark of a tree.