At over 2000 kilometres long The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.

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

If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.

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

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

DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.

Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.

The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.