The Earth is 4.56 billion years old…the same age as the Moon and the Sun.

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

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

Males produce one thousand sperm cells each second - 86 million each day.

The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.

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

Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.

Every year lightning kills 1000 people.