The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.

A quarter of the world's plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.

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

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

The largest dinosaur ever discovered was Seismosaurus who was over 100 feet long and weighed up to 80 tonnes.

Each rubber molecule is made of 65,000 individual atoms.

Without its lining of mucus your stomach would digest itself.

The driest inhabited place in the world is Aswan, Egypt where the annual average rainfall is .02 inches.