It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun's surface to the Earth.

Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.

More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.

The largest meteorite craters in the world are in Sudbury, Ontario, canada and in Vredefort, South Africa.

10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

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

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

Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.