Children’s taste buds are more sensitive than adults’. Little ones can have up to 10,000 taste buds
Children grow the fastest during their first year of life.
Children are natural mimics — they learn language by copying adults.
Coloring helps children relax and build motor skills.
Kids love jumping in puddles — adults avoid them!
Only kids make friends in under 30 seconds at the playground.
A child’s brain is twice as active as an adult’s.
The average 4-year-old asks over 300 questions a day.
A child may have over 100 small toys, but still love just one the most.
Kids are better at learning new languages than adults.
Only kids believe in magic as something real.
About Children in Numbers
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The average 4-year-old asks over 300 questions a day.
Over 300
Babies are born with over 300 bones, but many fuse together as they grow.
3 to 6 years
Kids’ imaginations peak between the ages of 3 and 6.
6 months
Most children learn to recognize their name by 6 months old.
More fun facts about children
👉 A 4-year-old boy Saeed Rashed AlMheiri from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, has become the world’s youngest published author with his book “The Elephant Saeed and the Bear,” according to Guinness World Records.
👉 The youngest girl to become a published author, as recognized by Guinness World Records, is Bella-Jay Dark, who was five years old when her book, The Lost Cat, was published.
👉 The record for the fastest Rubik’s Cube solve by a child is held by Yiheng Wang, who solved the cube in 3.08 seconds at age 11. This record was set on February 16, 2025.
👉 Cao Qixian of China set a new women’s world record – The fastest 3×3 Rubik’s Cube solve by a girl is 5.97 seconds – at the Rubik’s Cube International Open in Singapore.
👉 In the city of Volodymyr, Ukraine, second-graders made a panel of 1000 paper doves of peace using the origami technique.
2nd graders and their teacher were inspired by a legend that says that when a person folds 1,000 paper birds, his cherished wish will come true. They made 1000 blue-and-yellow paper birds, dreaming of victory and peace for Ukraine.
👉 Evelyne Chia (UK) holds the record for the fastest time to make 1,000 origami cranes, achieving this in 9 hours, 31 minutes, and 13 seconds.
👉 The largest kids’ choir involved over 25,000 children singing together.
👉 At just 13 old, Jordan Romero made history as the youngest person ever to summit Mount Everest.
👉 The youngest chess grandmaster in history is Abhimanyu Mishra, from New Jersey, USA, who achieved the title at the age of 12 years.
👉 Lev Bondarenko from Kharkiv, Ukraine, has already set 4 Records in Ukraine! By the age of 8, he had read over 1,000 books, encyclopedias, and magazines. At the age of 11, he set a new record – he passed the most difficult English exam for adults.
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