The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurence every 9,300 years.

If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.

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

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

Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.

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

If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool.

90% of those who die from hurricanes die from drowning.