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

On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.

The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.

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

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

Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.

A typical hurricane produces the nergy equivalent to 8,000 one megaton bombs.

Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.