An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.

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

A healthy person has 6,000 million, million, million haemoglobin molecules.

There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.

In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .

Every year lightning kills 1000 people.

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

The Australian billygoat plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange.