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

The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus - In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.

If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.

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

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

On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.

Our oldest radio broadcasts of the 1930s have already travelled past 100,000 stars.

The saturn V rocket which carried man to the Moon develops power equivalent to fifty 747 jumbo jets.