Category: Facts For Kids
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What are genes?
Have you ever thought that whenever some relative comes to your house their first remark is how similar you look to your mom or dad or uncle or grandmother or grandfather or some other distant cousin! How can one person look similar to so many people in the family? Do each of us carry some…
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How do snakes get poison on their teeth?
Before I begin to answer that question, tell me why do snakes even need to have poison at all? Here is why. Snakes use their poisonous bite to protect themselves from predators. Also, snakes are usually smaller and slower than their prey. Their venom makes it easy for them to catch the prey since after poisoning the prey…
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Magical Sun – Changing Color
What colour is the rising sun in the morning? – Dark orange What colour is sun during the day? – White What colour is the sun in the evening, just before setting? – Dark orange again. How magical is that! But how does that happen?? Do you know that the light around us – the…
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Why Animals can’t Speak?
If I ask you why animals can not speak, what will be your guess? 1. Don’t animals have a tongue? 2. Don’t animals have a voice box? 3. Animals want to speak, but they can’t? The first and the second one are not true. Most animals do have a tongue. Most of them also have a…
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Plants that are not vegetarian
There are many plants that eat insects or other animals. So here you are eating plants and being a vegetarian where as some plants are eating meat…Curious?? Let’s talk about meat-eating carnivorous plants. These plants have adapted to grow in places where the soil is weak in nutrients specially Nitrogen. There are around 630 such…
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Birds that Can’t Fly
Do you know that all birds have wings and feathers but still some of them can’t fly? You guessed it right – we are talking about flightless birds! As the name suggests flightless birds are those that do not have the ability to fly. The best known flightless birds are the ostrich, emu, cassowary, rhea, kiwi, and penguin. Now, you know…
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Bounce like a Bouncy Ball
Guess this one. Where are you if you are bouncing effortlessly like a bouncy ball, again and again, without hurting your knees or ankle and without getting tired? You are most probably jumping on a Trampoline !! Have you ever wondered how trampoline is made? If you notice, trampolines have a rectangular or a circular…
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Turtles and Tortoises – How Same but different!
Hmm…Turtles and Tortoise are really special creatures. They carry their homes with them. Yes! The shell we see on them is their home! It must be difficult to carry the shell all the time but the good part is that they have a shelter wherever they go. When I was little I always thought tortoise…
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Ninjas!
Hey, you must have seen Ninjas in movies or cartoons? If I ask you what do Ninjas do – you will say that they fight! But what do they fight for? Where do they come from? Ninjas were Japanese fighters who lived in Japan about 700 years ago. These warriors were originally called shinobi-no-mono. Also, Ninjas were not just…
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What are 3D Movies?
Don’t we all these days hear most of the movies being released in 3D? Is 3D a new language in which the movie is made? Let us try and understand 3D first and then we will move on to the 3D movies. 2D or a 3D is used to describe some shapes. 2D is used for…
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Sun, Rain and Rainbow
Have you wondered how is that whenever it rains while the sun is shining in the sky, you are most likely to see a rainbow? Is it because God likes to colour in the sky in such lovely weather? Well that is something that little babies think. But for you I will tell you the real reason. You…
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Our Fingerprints
Do you know what is most unique in this world. Something which is different even in identical twins ! The identical twins are alike in all ways but even they have different fingerprints. Let us examine our hands.The ridges on the fingertips and the thumb (in form of loops and spirals) are the ones that help…