The weight of all the electricity that powers the internet is equal to an apricot.

A sports automobile can fit inside the gaping jaw of a hippo.

From the North Pole to the centre of the Earth, it would take 19 minutes to fall.

64 great-great-grandparents are your ancestors going back six generations.

The average pencil is thought to have 20 times as much graphite as the Golden Gate Bridge, or 56 km (35 miles), in order to write a line.

Tower of Terror, a rollercoaster at Gold Reef City in Johannesburg, South Africa, is the world's most intense ride.

Calculations claim that printing out the entire book would require 136 billion.

The packaging problems of round fruit can be solved by making them square. In Korea, some apples are grown in plastic moulds so they take on a square shape.