The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.

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

There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.

Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.

Even travelling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach the nearest large galaxy, Andromeda.

In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.

The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.

The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.