Fun Facts Zone

Nine wild-but-true facts to make your brain go WOW! Share your favourite with someone at dinner.

Bees talk by dancing

When a bee finds tasty flowers, it does a wiggly waggle dance to tell its friends exactly where the flowers are — and how far away!

Octopuses have 3 hearts

An octopus has three hearts and blue blood! Two hearts pump blood to its arms, and one pumps it to the whole body.

Carrots used to be purple

The first carrots were purple and white! Orange carrots were grown in the Netherlands about 400 years ago.

Elephants can't jump

Elephants are the biggest land animals that can't jump — but they are amazing swimmers who use their trunk like a snorkel.

Plants eat sunlight

Plants make their own food from sunlight, air and water. This superpower is called photosynthesis!

Chickens dream

Chickens dream while they sleep, just like you. They can even remember more than 100 different faces — human and chicken!

Bananas are berries

Surprise! Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not. In plant science, a berry grows from one single flower.

Worms have no eyes

Worms don't have eyes, but their skin can sense light. That's how they know to wriggle back underground!

Broccoli is a baby flower

The broccoli on your plate is a bundle of tiny flower buds. If nobody picked it, it would bloom into little yellow flowers!