The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.

At over 2000 kilometres long The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.

One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a …pea.

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

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

To escape the Earth's gravity a rocket need to travel at 7 miles a second.

In the 14th century the Black Death killed 75,000,000 people. It was carried by fleas on the black rat.

The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.