At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.

If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.

The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.

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

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

The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.

Every hour the Universe expands by a billion miles in all directions.

The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.