The 10 warmest years on record have all occurred since 1998.

The average housefly only lives for 2 or 3 weeks.

Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.

Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.

One cup of whole milk contains about 276 mg of calcium.

Sharks don't have bones.

The building that is home to McWane Science Center used to be known as Loveman’s department store.

Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.

The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.

A single bolt of lightning contains enough energy to cook 100,000 pieces of toast.

Every year in the U.S., 625 people are struck by lightning.

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

If you threw a snowball fast enough, it would totally vaporize when it hit a brick wall.

If you could drive to the sun—at 55 miles per hour—it would take 193 years.

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

There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

Sunlight can penetrate clean ocean water to a depth of 240 feet.

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

Hummingbirds can't walk.

The heart of giraffe is two feet long, and can weigh as much as 24 pounds.

The earliest cockroach fossils are about 280 million years old.