At over 2000 kilometres long The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.

Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmation dogs to suffer from hearing disability.

The driest inhabited place in the world is Aswan, Egypt where the annual average rainfall is .02 inches.

The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.

Our oldest radio broadcasts of the 1930s have already travelled past 100,000 stars.

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 Earth is 4.56 billion years old…the same age as the Moon and the Sun.

When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.