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

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

The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.

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

Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.

Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.

Light would take 0.13 seconds to travel around the Earth.

Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.