Every year lightning kills 1000 people.

The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.

10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts - not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down.

There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.

DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.

Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.