The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.

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

The largest galexies contain a million, million stars.

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

The molecular structure of DNA was first determined by Watson and Crick in 1953.

The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus - In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.

The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.

Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.