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Each of these typing facts lessons is one true fact told in two or three plain sentences, 28 to 48 words long. The 40 facts cover space, animals, the Earth, words and letters, and the keyboard itself.
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Every fact is full sentences with capitals and periods, most have commas, and many hold digits: The Height of Mount Everest has three numbers to type. Each was checked against the Wikipedia article on its subject on October 4, 2026. All 40 are printed in full under the tool.
Three Hearts has no digits and no capitals inside a sentence: a gentle first fact.
Two facts hold a symbol to reach for: The Name of the & Sign and The @ Sign Before Email.
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Are these typing facts lessons free?
Yes. All 40 facts are free to type and to print, with no account and no download. What you type and your scores stay in this browser.
Are the facts true?
Each was checked on October 4, 2026 against the Wikipedia article on its subject, and the source note under the list names every article. Where counts differ, as with the most common letters, the fact says it is one count.
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All 40 facts
Space 8
A Planet Found on Paper (37 words)The position of Neptune was worked out with mathematics before anyone knew it was a planet. Johann Galle found it with a telescope on September 23, 1846. Neptune takes 164.8 years for one lap of the Sun.
The Great Red Spot (33 words)The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a storm. It is anticyclonic, and no storm of that kind in the Solar System is larger. It has been watched without a break since 1878.
One Face of the Moon (36 words)The same side of the Moon always faces the Earth. Tidal forces have locked it that way, so the Moon turns once on its axis in the time it takes to go once around the Earth.
The Return of Halley's Comet (32 words)Halley's Comet can be seen from the Earth without a telescope about every 74 to 79 years. It last came by in 1986. It is due back in the middle of 2061.
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Rings Made of Ice (45 words)The rings of Saturn are almost all made of water ice. Galileo was the first person to see them, in 1610, but his view was not clear enough to tell what they were. In 1655 Christiaan Huygens described them as a disk around the planet.
The Slow Turn of Venus (41 words)Venus takes longer to turn once on its axis than to go once around the Sun. One turn takes 243 Earth days, and one trip around the Sun takes 224.7 Earth days. Venus also spins the opposite way to most planets.
Sunlight Takes Eight Minutes (40 words)Light from the Sun does not reach us at once. It takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel from the Sun to the Earth. The Sun also holds about 99.86 percent of the mass of the Solar System.
The Tallest Volcano on Mars (35 words)Olympus Mons is the tallest volcano on Mars. By one measurement it is a little over 21 kilometers high, which is about two and a half times the height of Mount Everest above sea level.
Animals 8
The Emperor Penguin and the Egg (43 words)Among living penguins the emperor penguin is the tallest and the heaviest, and it lives only in Antarctica. The female lays just one egg. The male keeps it warm for just over two months while she goes back to the sea to feed.
The Fastest Animal on Land (28 words)No animal on land outruns a cheetah. It can run at 58 to 65 miles an hour. Its pale fur is covered with solid black spots, evenly spaced.
The Largest Animal (32 words)No animal known to have lived is larger than the blue whale. It can grow to about 100 feet long. It is a filter feeder, and it eats almost nothing but krill.
The Tallest Animal on Land (31 words)Giraffes are the tallest living land animals. They are known by their very long necks and legs, their spotted coats and the horn-like growths on their heads, which are called ossicones.
Three Hearts (30 words)An octopus has three hearts. One main heart sends blood around the body, and two gill hearts pump it through the two gills. Its eight limbs are known as arms.
Twenty Hours of Sleep (33 words)Koalas live in open eucalyptus woodland, and the leaves of those trees make up most of their diet. The leaves give them little energy. A koala can sleep twenty hours in a day.
Two Summers a Year (41 words)The Arctic tern sees two summers every year. It nests in the far north, flies to the coast of Antarctica for the southern summer and comes back about six months later. Its migrations are by far the longest known among animals.
Why a Hummingbird Hums (35 words)A hummingbird can hover in one place. Its wings beat from about 12 times a second in the largest species to 99 times a second in small ones. The beating wings make the humming sound.
The Earth 8
A Planet of Water (29 words)Most of the surface of the Earth is ocean. Ocean water covers 70.8 percent of it. Almost all of the water on the Earth is held in the ocean.
The Coldest Continent (31 words)No continent is colder, drier or windier on average than Antarctica, and none has a higher average elevation. A sheet of ice that averages 1.2 miles thick covers most of it.
The Deepest Lake (48 words)Lake Baikal in Russia is the deepest lake in the world, and at 25 to 30 million years it is also the oldest. It holds more than a fifth of the fresh surface water on the Earth, more than all of the Great Lakes of North America together.
The Deepest Trench (41 words)The Mariana Trench in the western Pacific is the deepest ocean trench on the Earth. Its lowest known point is called the Challenger Deep. That point lies more than a mile farther from sea level than the top of Mount Everest.
The Height of Mount Everest (33 words)Mount Everest is the highest mountain on the Earth above sea level. A survey by Nepal and China in 2020 put its height at 8,848.86 meters. That is a little over 29,031 feet.
The Largest Hot Desert (30 words)No hot desert in the world is larger than the Sahara. Among deserts of every kind it comes third, because the deserts of Antarctica and the Arctic are both larger.
The Lowest Shore (44 words)The shore of the Dead Sea is the lowest dry land on the Earth, more than 1,400 feet below sea level. The lake is over nine times as salty as the sea. Its water is so dense that swimming in it is like floating.
The Peaceful Sea (37 words)The Pacific is the largest and deepest ocean on the Earth. It was named in 1520 by the explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who met fair winds when he reached it. The name he gave it means peaceful sea.
Words and letters 8
The @ Sign Before Email (36 words)The @ sign is an old mark from accounts and invoices, where it means at a rate of. In the 1970s it found a new use in email addresses. Now it is on most computer keyboards.
The Dot on the i (36 words)The small dot on top of a lowercase i or j has a name. It is called a tittle, a word that is rarely used. In English writing the dot appears only on those two letters.
The Most Common Letter (38 words)Some letters turn up more often than others. In one count of English text the six most common letters, in order, are e, t, a, o, i and n. The least common letter in that count is z.
The Name of the & Sign (37 words)The & sign is called an ampersand. Its shape began as the two letters of et, the Latin word for and, joined into one. Its name is a worn-down form of the phrase and per se and.
Silent and Listen (36 words)An anagram is a word or phrase made by rearranging the letters of another, using every letter exactly once. Silent is an anagram of listen. Even the word anagram can be turned into nag a ram.
Uppercase and Lowercase (36 words)The words uppercase and lowercase come from printing by hand. Movable type was kept in shallow drawers called type cases. The capital letters were stored in a case that sat above the case of small letters.
Vowels in the Alphabet (40 words)The English alphabet has 26 letters, and each one has an uppercase and a lowercase form. Five are vowel letters: A, E, I, O and U. Two more, W and Y, can work as a vowel or as a consonant.
Words That Read Both Ways (28 words)A palindrome reads the same backward as forward. The words eye, madam and racecar are palindromes. A number, a date or a whole sentence can be one too.
Keyboards and typing 8
Backspace on a Typewriter (37 words)On a typewriter the Backspace key pushed the carriage one position backward. Some very early typewriters labeled it the backspacer key. On a computer it usually moves the cursor back one place and deletes the character there.
The Bumps on F and J (45 words)On most computer keyboards, two keys of the home row carry a raised dot or bar. They are the keys where the index fingers rest, which are F and J on a QWERTY keyboard. The marks help a typist find the home row by touch.
Caps Lock Was a Shift Lock (33 words)Caps Lock began as the shift lock on mechanical typewriters. The lock held the type in its shifted position, so a typist could go on typing capitals without holding the Shift key down.
How QWERTY Got Its Name (42 words)The QWERTY keyboard is named after the first six keys in its top row of letters. Christopher Latham Sholes, an editor of newspapers and a printer, worked out the layout in the early 1870s. It is still in wide use on computers.
What a Pangram Is (41 words)A pangram is a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once. The best known one in English is about a quick brown fox and a lazy dog. Pangrams are used to show typefaces and to practice typing.
Where the Tab Key Got Its Name (40 words)On a typewriter the Tab key was also called the tabulator key. The word tab comes from tabulate, which is to set data out in a table. Pressing the key moved the typing point forward to the next tab stop.
Why It Is Called Return (33 words)The Return key goes back to two actions of a typewriter. The carriage return sent the carriage to the start of the line. The line feed moved the paper on by one line.
Why It Is Called Shift (42 words)The Shift key takes its name from the typewriter. Holding it down shifted the type up so it printed a capital letter. A keyboard usually has two Shift keys, at the left and right ends of the row below the home row.