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

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

The short-nosed Bandicoot has a gestation period of only 12 days.

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

The largest dinosaur ever discovered was Seismosaurus who was over 100 feet long and weighed up to 80 tonnes.

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

Wireless' communications took a giant leap forward in 1962 with the launch of Telstar, the first satellite capable of relaying telephone and satellite TV signals.

The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (metres per second – that is equal to 186,287.49 miles per second).