The short-nosed Bandicoot has a gestation period of only 12 days.

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

The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.

If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool.

10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.

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

The African Elephant gestates for 22 months.