The saturn V rocket which carried man to the Moon develops power equivalent to fifty 747 jumbo jets.

Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.

More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.

Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 - the patient lived for 18 days.

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

An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.

October 12th, 1999 was declared 'The Day of Six Billion' based on United Nations projections.

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