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

The Australian billygoat plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange.

Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 - the patient lived for 18 days.

The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Artic to Mexico and back every year.

The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.

The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.

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

The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.