The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.

Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.

The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mamba snake is over 95%.

When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometres away in Australia.

The temperature in Antarctica plummets as low as -35 degrees celsius.

A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.

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

Quasars are the most distant objects in the Universe.