The temperature in Antarctica plummets as low as -35 degrees celsius.

An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.

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

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

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

The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mamba snake is over 95%.

Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts - not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down.

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