The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.

The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.

The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.

Every year lightning kills 1000 people.

A typical hurricane produces the nergy equivalent to 8,000 one megaton bombs.

Quasars are the most distant objects in the Universe.

The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.

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