90% of those who die from hurricanes die from drowning.

Micro-organisms have been brought back to life after being frozen in perma-frost for three million years.

Light would take 0.13 seconds to travel around the Earth.

The African Elephant gestates for 22 months.

Utopia ia a large, smooth lying area of Mars.

The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.

Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.

A salmon-rich, low cholesterol diet means that Inuits rarely suffer from heart disease.