There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.

A salmon-rich, low cholesterol diet means that Inuits rarely suffer from heart disease.

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

90% of those who die from hurricanes die from drowning.

In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .

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

Even travelling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda.

The African Elephant gestates for 22 months.