The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.

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

One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.

If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.

A salmon-rich, low cholesterol diet means that Inuits rarely suffer from heart disease.

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

The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.

If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.