There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

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

The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.

If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool.

One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.

Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.

The largest meteorite craters in the world are in Sudbury, Ontario, canada and in Vredefort, South Africa.

If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.