Fun facts for your 2-year-old
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留着，给我闺女慢慢讲。呵呵。
All about animals
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- Eggs come from chickens.
- Horses can sleep standing up or lying down.
- Starfish poop from the top of their body.
- Turtles don’t need to brush before going to bed. They don’t have any teeth.
- Roosters are daddy chickens, and hens are mommy chickens.
- Birds sit on their eggs to keep them warm.
- Gophers and moles use their big front teeth to dig tunnels in the dirt.
- Birds sit high on telephone wires and treetops to get a good view of things they might want for lunch, like bugs and berries.
- Cows, horses, sheep, goats, pigs, and lots of other animals don’t have fingers or toes like us. Instead they have four legs with hooves.
- Birds don’t go pee-pee. All they do is poop.
- Birds make white poop.
- Cats and dogs lick their bodies to clean themselves.
- Dogs kiss by licking.
- Cats purr when they're happy and sometimes when they're scared.
- Dalmatians, those cute white dogs covered with black spots, are totally white when they’re born. They get the black spots as they grow older.
- With seahorses, the daddies get pregnant and have babies, not the mommies.
- Baby beavers are called kittens.
- Duck and goose feathers are used to make very warm blankets.
- Sheep hair, called wool, is used to make lots of warm clothes, like sweaters, hats, and mittens.
- Cats can push their claws in and out whenever they want. They push them out when they want to climb a tree.
- Chicks hatch from their eggshell by pushing with their feet and pecking with a special egg tooth at the end of their beak. The tooth falls off a day after they're born.
- Animal hooves, like on cows and pigs and goats, keep growing and need to be trimmed, just like your fingernails and toenails.
- Your eyes are round balls, called eyeballs.
- Your belly button is where you were connected to your mommy when you were still inside her.
- The teeth you have now are called baby teeth. When you get bigger, they’ll fall out and bigger teeth will grow in. Most of your grown-up teeth will stay for the rest of your life.
- When you stay in the bath for a long time, your fingers and toes get wrinkled. But once you get dry, the wrinkles go away.
- Your body grows when you sleep, but it grows so slowly that you can’t feel it.
- Raisins are dried-up grapes.
- Some vegetables, like carrots and potatoes, grow under the ground in dirt. Some, like peas and green beans, grow above the ground on plants.
- Milk comes from cows. Some people also like to drink the milk that comes from goats.
- Chocolate is made from a bean that grows on trees.
- Cheese is made from the milk of cows.
- Tea is made from leaves.
- The biggest strawberry anyone has ever seen was as big as an apple.
- Some apples are as tiny as cherries.
- Coffee is made from a bean that grows on a tree.
- Peanut butter is made of mashed-up peanuts.
- Apples float in water.
- There’s a kind of banana called a finger banana that’s as small as a finger and super sweet.
- Jelly and jam are made of cooked and mashed-up fruit, like strawberries or blueberries.
- Balls have air in them. That’s what makes them round and bouncy.
- Paper is made from mashed-up trees.
- If you mix red and yellow paint together you get orange. If you mix blue and yellow paint together you get green. If you mix red and blue paint together you get purple.
- If you mix all your colors of paint together you get dark brown.
- A long time ago, people wrote with the pointy end of feathers dipped in ink. Today pens have ink inside of them instead.
- Wind blowing over the ocean is one of the things that makes waves.
- Water turns into ice when it gets really, really cold.
- The water for your bath comes from lakes, rivers, and streams.
- Trees drink water from the ground through their roots, which grow down into the dirt.
- Sand is made when waves, wind, and rain smash up rocks into little tiny bits. It takes a long, long time to get the pieces small enough to be sand.
- Snow is made inside of clouds and is actually itty-bitty pieces of ice.
