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

The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.

The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.

The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurence every 9,300 years.

The Earth is 4.56 billion years old…the same age as the Moon and the Sun.

Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.

Quasars are the most distant objects in the Universe.

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