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

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

Utopia ia a large, smooth lying area of Mars.

The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mamba snake is over 95%.

It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.

The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurence every 9,300 years.

Light would take 0.13 seconds to travel around the Earth.

The largest galexies contain a million, million stars.