At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.

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

Our oldest radio broadcasts of the 1930s have already travelled past 100,000 stars.

The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.

If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.

Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.

The driest inhabited place in the world is Aswan, Egypt where the annual average rainfall is .02 inches.

A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.