Light would take 0.13 seconds to travel around the Earth.

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

The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.

Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.

A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons.

When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, its force was so great it could be heard 4,800 kilometres away in Australia.

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

In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.