Fun Facts

With around 200 countries and more than 7.8 billion people (plus plants, animals, and other organisms), the world is full of interesting, fun activities to learn about that may catch your interest. Fact: Armadillo shells are bulletproof fact, one Texas man was hospitalized when a bullet he shot at an armadillo ricocheted off the animal and hit him in the jaw.

Fact: Octopuses lay 56,000 eggs at a time Octopus can lay up to as many as 200, 000 eggs. The giant Pacific octopus will lay 20,00–100,000 eggs, each about the size of a grain of rice. the octopus could lay that many eggs, but there’s absolutely no correlation with the specific number ‘56,000’. then they die. After a female octopus lays a clutch of eggs, she quits eating and wastes away; by the time the eggs hatch, she dies. Fact: Most

Disney characters wear gloves to keep animation simple Walt Disney might have been the first one to put gloves on his characters as seen in 1929’s The Opry House starring Mickey Mouse. In addition to being easier to animate, there’s another reason Disney opted for gloves: “We didn’t want him to have mouse hands because he was supposed to be more human,” Disney told his biographer in 1957.