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

The largest galexies contain a million, million stars.

Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.

Microbial life can survive on the cooling rods of a nuclear reactor.

Wireless' communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals.

Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.

October 12th, 1999 was declared 'The Day of Six Billion' based on United Nations projections.

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