A typical hurricane produces the nergy equivalent to 8,000 one megaton bombs.

If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.

The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.

The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.

The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurence every 9,300 years.

The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.

Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 - the patient lived for 18 days.

The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.