Top 20 Ooey Gooey Facts for Kids!

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From the icky bugs who make you wonder to the secrets of your body’s grossest functions – check out these amazing facts about everything grossly cool!

Gross Crawling Critters

• Certain dung beetles roll the wastes of other animals into balls before using them as anything from food, to home, to a place to lay their eggs!
• Lice have special spit that they use to stick their tiny eggs to people’s hair.
• Some cultures are known to eat termites! In certain places, a Queen termite is even considered to be a delicacy.
• One of a roach's favorite foods is glue.
• Because they can’t chew, houseflies only eat liquids. That’s why they "spit" on anything they want to eat: the spit-like substance turns the solid into a liquid so they can drink it up!
  
  

Animal Surprises

• Adult penguins feed their babies by coughing up food from their own stomachs!
• Frogs and toads might look like they have warts, but their bumpy skin is actually meant to help with camouflage and self-defense.
• 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

• The food you eat goes on a journey as you digest. By the time you go to the bathroom, it’s traveled about 30 feet!
• Your intestines help break down foods on their way out of your body. The small intestine alone can be about half the length of a school bus!
• Poop gets its brown color from what’s in it – a mixture of wastes, bacteria, and water plus green-yellow bile and brownish bilirubin, special helpers your body uses to assist with digestion.
• Most people pass gas about 10-20 times in a single day. – That’s as much as 7,300 times a year!
• The stomach plays an important part in digestion: It grinds and mashes up your food into a mushy goop called “chime.”

Burps, Boogers, and Beyond

• According to Guinness World Records, the longest known ear hair belongs to a man whose amazingly long ear hairs are over 7 inches long!
• Our brains are a big bundle of nerve cells, which are gray, white, and a little pink in color and have a texture like tofu!
• The sound of your “growling stomach” has its own special (and funny-sounding) name: Borborygmi.
• The loudest known burp was 107.1 decibels, according to Guinness World Records. That means the burp was louder than most chainsaws and motorcycles!
• Your nose naturally produces about a quart of mucus every day!