The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.

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

October 12th, 1999 was declared 'The Day of Six Billion' based on United Nations projections.

The African Elephant gestates for 22 months.

Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.

Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.

A quarter of the world's plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.

The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.