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

If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.

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

Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.

Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.

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

The Earth is 4.56 billion years old…the same age as the Moon and the Sun.

It would take over an hour for a heavy object to sink 6.7 miles down to the deepest part of the ocean.