Bizarre Biology
This flightless bird from New Zealand is the only bird in the world with nostrils at the very tip of its long beak to help it smell out bugs in the dirt.
What is the kiwi?
This massive visual monument in Egypt was actually buried in desert sand up to its neck for thousands of years until archaeologists fully uncovered it in 1925.
What is the Great Sphinx of Giza?
Released in 2011, this pixelated survival game remains the best-selling video game of all time, beating out Grand Theft Auto and Tetris.
What is Minecraft?
If you open an English dictionary, this is the only number that is spelled with its letters in perfect alphabetical order (F-O-R-T-Y).
What is forty?
June features the "Summer Solstice" in the Northern Hemisphere, which marks the exact day of the year that has this unique feature.
What is the longest day of the year (or the most daylight hours)?
When humans are born, they have about 300 of these structural pieces, but by adulthood, many have fused together, leaving us with only 206.
What are bones?
This South American rainforest produces roughly 20% of the Earth's oxygen and is home to one in ten of all known wildlife species on Earth.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
The iconic character Mario was originally introduced in a 1981 arcade game under the name "Jumpman" before getting his own franchise. This was the name of that original game.
What is Donkey Kong?
If you roll a standard 6-sided die, the numbers on any two directly opposite sides will always add up to this specific total.
What is seven?
This sweet, frozen dessert was invented in ancient China around 200 BC using a packed mixture of milk and rice frozen in snow.
What is ice cream?
This microscopic sea creature is famous for being nearly indestructible, able to survive the vacuum of outer space and extreme temperatures.
What is a tardigrade (or water bear)?
This European city is famous for having no roads for cars; instead, people get around using a network of canals and boats called gondolas.
What is Venice (Italy)?
This massive multiplayer online game platform allows users to program their own games, and its digital currency is called "Robux."
What is Roblox?
This shape is technically a polygon with zero diagonals, and it is considered the strongest shape in architecture because it distributes weight evenly.
What is a triangle?
The month of June was named after Juno, the ancient mythological goddess of the Roman Empire who was said to protect the community.
What is the Roman Empire?
Instead of a regular tongue, a blue whale has a tongue that weighs as much as this massive land mammal.
What is an elephant?
Before becoming a famous world leader and president, Abraham Lincoln was an elite athlete who was so good he was enshrined in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This is the name of the fictional town where Eleven, Mike, and Dustin battle the Upside Down in Stranger Things.
What is Hawkins (Indiana)?
If you write out numbers as words (one, two, three...), this is the very first letter of the alphabet you will use that isn't 'A', 'B', or 'C'. It doesn't appear until you hit 100.
What is 'D' (in Hundred)?
Celebrated on June 19th, this federal holiday commemorates the end of slavery in the United States and honors African American history and freedom.
What is Juneteenth?
This is the only mammal in the world that is capable of true, sustained flight (not just gliding).
What is a bat?
This famous 4,000-mile-long trade route connected the East and the West for centuries, allowing cultures to share spices, science, paper, and textiles.
What is the Silk Road?
The voice of this famous metallic, golden Star Wars droid was originally supposed to sound like an American car salesman, until actor Anthony Daniels' polite British accent won George Lucas over.
Who is C-3PO?
This is the name for a number that reads exactly the same backward as it does forward, like 121 or 4884.
What is a palindrome?
If you are born in June, you have three birthstones, but this shiny, organic one is unique because it is created inside a living oyster or mollusk shell.
What is a pearl?