The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.

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

Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.

The largest galexies contain a million, million stars.

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

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

Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.

The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus - In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.