Wireless' communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals.

Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.

Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.

Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.

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

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

The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.

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