Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.

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

The African Elephant gestates for 22 months.

Astronauts cannot belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .

The temperature in Antarctica plummets as low as -35 degrees celsius.

There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.

Every year lightning kills 1000 people.