When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.

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

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

Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.

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

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

An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.

The largest dinosaur ever discovered was Seismosaurus who was over 100 feet long and weighed up to 80 tonnes.