Top 20 Gross Facts for Kids!
From the icky bugs who make you wonder to the secrets of your body's grossest functions - check out whyzz.com's amazing facts for young kids about everything grossly cool! (And don't forget to click each fact for more info all about it!)
Gross Crawling Critters
· Lice have special spit that they use to stick their tiny eggs to people's hair.
· One of a roach's favorite foods is glue.
Animal Surprises
· Adult penguins feed their babies by coughing up food from their own stomachs!
· Pew! Skunks can spray a target with their stinky musk from a distance of ten feet.
· Baboons use their big pink butts as cushions!
· Some rhinos mark their territory with urine and mounds of dung as big as three feet high!
Bathroom Business
· Most people pass gas about 10-20 times in a single day. - That's as much as 7,300 times a year!
Burps, Boogers, and Beyond
· The sound of your "growling stomach" has its own special (and funny-sounding) name: Borborygmi.
· Your nose naturally produces about a quart of mucus every day!
The above content from whyzz.com appears in articles written by Mya Kagan, Brian Griffin, Kate Simmons, and Alli Rodenhauser. whyzz helps parents answer their curious kids' "why" questions whenever and wherever they are! For more facts and kid-ready Q&As, visit www.whyzz.com!