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

In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.

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.

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

When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.

Each rubber molecule is made of 65,000 individual atoms.

The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.