Facts for Ages 5–7
1520 facts perfect for this age group
Music therapy is used in hospitals to help children relax and feel less pain.
The Pizza Planet truck from Toy Story appears as a hidden Easter egg in almost every Pixar movie.
The pomelo is the world's largest citrus fruit, sometimes growing to the size of a football. It is the ancestor of the grapefruit and is native to Southeast Asia, where it is eaten during Chinese New Year as a symbol of good luck.
Walt Disney built Disneyland because he wanted a place where families could step inside the worlds of his films. It opened in 1955.
The Pacific Ocean is larger than all the land on Earth put together, covering more than 165 million square kilometres.
Ancient Egyptians loved playing board games. Senet, one of the world's oldest board games, was played in Egypt over 5,000 years ago. Game boards have even been found inside ancient tombs, suggesting Egyptians expected to play games in the afterlife!
Some Inuit languages have dozens of different words to describe snow and ice.
Wealthy Romans kept all sorts of exotic pets including snakes, peacocks, monkeys, and even tigers. They gave their pets names just as we do today. Some Romans were so fond of their pets that they wrote poetry about them and had them buried in small pet cemeteries with touching inscriptions.
Lava can reach temperatures of between 700°C and 1,200°C, which is hot enough to melt many metals. Despite its extreme heat, lava moves slowly enough that people can usually walk away from a slow-moving flow safely.
The way pirates talk in movies — saying "arrr" and "matey" — was mostly invented by actor Robert Newton in the 1950 film Treasure Island.
China invented toilet paper around 600 AD during the Tang Dynasty, making them the first civilization to use it. By the 14th century, China was producing 10 million packages of toilet paper per year. It wasn't until the 1850s that toilet paper became commercially available in the Western world.
Manatees, sometimes called sea cows, are more closely related to elephants than to any other marine mammal. They are gentle herbivores that graze on underwater plants for up to eight hours a day.
The Pacific Ocean is the largest body of water on Earth, covering more area than all the continents combined. It stretches from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south.
Learning a new language takes time and practice, but even knowing just a few words in someone's language can be a great way to show respect and make a connection. People all over the world appreciate when visitors make the effort to speak their language.
Almost all meat-eating dinosaurs walked on two legs, while most plant-eaters walked on four.
In very cold, calm conditions, delicate ice crystals called frost flowers can grow on the surface of thin sea ice. They look like tiny frozen roses.
Some species of parrot, such as the macaw, can live for over 80 years — longer than many humans.
The word "alphabet" comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha and beta.
In Anglo-Saxon England, the word 'breakfast' literally meant 'breaking the fast' — ending the overnight period without eating.
Tornadoes have been recorded on every continent except Antarctica.