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

Micro-organisms have been brought back to life after being frozen in perma-frost for three million years.

Without its lining of mucus your stomach would digest itself.

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

A typical hurricane produces the nergy equivalent to 8,000 one megaton bombs.

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

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

Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.