Scientists have recently discovered that gonorrhea bacterium is, pound for pound, the strongest living creature on Earth, capable of pulling up to 100,000 times its own body weight!

It takes sunlight an average of 8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel from the Sun to the Earth.

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

In humans, each cell normally contains 23 pairs of chromosomes, for a total of 46. Water buffalo and potatoes each have 48, and Silkworms have 54.

The average person has about 5 liters of blood, and the average heart pumps about 70 ml of blood with each beat. If your heart rate is 70 beats per minute, you will pump about 4.9 liters of blood (70 beats X 70 ml) in one minute, which is roughly your entire blood supply. So an individual blood cell should make a complete circuit of the body at least once every 60 seconds.

Several million earthquakes occur in the each year across the planet, although many go undetected because they hit remote areas or have very small magnitudes.

Once a lava flows became established and good channels develop, the lava in the channels can flow at up to 60 km/hour. That's faster than a sprinting greyhound!

The taste buds themselves are a collection of cells on the surface of the tongue, each housing about 50 taste cells. The buds renew themselves every ten days to two weeks. However, anything that causes inflammation, such as infections or smoking, can damage the taste buds and affect their renewal.

Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist, invented dynamite in 1867. Nobel held 355 different patents, dynamite being the most famous. After reading a premature obituary which condemned him for profiting from the sales of arms, he bequeathed his fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes.

The sun has used up about half of its hydrogen fuel in the last 4.6 billion years, since its birth. It still has enough hydrogen to last about another 5 billion years before it runs out of fuel and turns into a Red Giant.