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!