Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.

A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.

The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.

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

Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.

Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.

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

The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurence every 9,300 years.