10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.

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

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

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

The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.

The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.

Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.

The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.