There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.

Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmation dogs to suffer from hearing disability.

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

In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .

Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.

Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.

Quasars emit more energy than 100 giant galaxies.

Astronauts cannot belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.