Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.

The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.

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

Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.

An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.

The Australian billygoat plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange.

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

The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year.