The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mamba snake is over 95%.

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

The driest inhabited place in the world is Aswan, Egypt where the annual average rainfall is .02 inches.

It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.

DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.

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

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

October 12th, 1999 was declared 'The Day of Six Billion' based on United Nations projections.