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

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

A quarter of the world's plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.

The short-nosed Bandicoot has a gestation period of only 12 days.

The largest galexies contain a million, million stars.

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

The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.