The African Elephant gestates for 22 months.

The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.

The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (metres per second – that is equal to 186,287.49 miles per second).

The largest dinosaur ever discovered was Seismosaurus who was over 100 feet long and weighed up to 80 tonnes.

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

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

The largest meteorite craters in the world are in Sudbury, Ontario, canada and in Vredefort, South Africa.

Light would take 0.13 seconds to travel around the Earth.