Google Street View contains 21.5 petabytes of image data (one petabyte is a million gigabytes).
Although the ostrich lays the largest eggs in the world, in comparison to the mass of the ostrich, they are the smallest eggs laid by any bird.
Swordfish have special organs that can heat up their eyes to 28 degrees Celsius, to make them more effective in cold water.
Jupiter has the shortest day of any planet in the Solar System.
The three hands on an analogue clock are never precisely 120 degrees apart.
If you scales up the universe to a scale at which Planck lengths would be visible, atoms would be the size of galaxies.
Roughly 1900 microfibres will escape a piece of clothing when it is washed. These fibres are a major source of oceanic pollution.
Only one scientist has one both a Nobel Prize and an Ig Nobel Prize. Andre Geim (who actually works at the uni I attend) won a Nobel for his work on graphene, and an Ig Nobel for levitating a frog with magnets.
Rubber ducks are used to track ocean currents.
The longest mountain range in the world is the mid-ocean ridge system, a submarine mountain range that extends for 65000km and separates tectonic plates.
45 years passed between the invention of tinned food and the invention of the tin opener.
The smallest medical robot in the world is 60nm long. It was assembled by a team at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and will be used to repair damaged blood vessels.
In 1921, 192.5cm of snow fell in one day in Silverlake, Colorado.
Pound for pound, fat contains more energy than dynamite.
By area, the Netherlands have the most tornadoes of any country in the world.
The first person to be killed by a robot was Robert Williams in 1979, at a Ford factory in Michigan.
It is possible to measure happiness. When subjects were asked to rate their happiness from 1 to 10, their answers were found to be consistent and reliably correlate with their behaviour and mood.
The world's most tilted tower is not in Pisa. It is actually the Capital Gate building in the United Arab Emirates, which leans at an angle of 18 degrees to the vertical.
The world's largest commercially available jigsaw has 32256 pieces.
The world's thickest ice sheet is over 4.7km thick.
500000 earthquakes occur every year.
20% of people have nightmares each week.
The tallest tree in the world is called Hyperion, it is 115.4m tall. For comparison's sake, the Statue of Liberty is 46m tall.
There is a 1 in 8 chance of a Carrington Event-level solar flare occurring withing the next 10 years.
The average human will fart for eight and a half days over the course of their life, expelling 33000 litres of gas.
The world's longest human nose is 8.8cm long from bridge to tip.
There is a museum of penises in Iceland.
The world's heaviest lemon had a mass of 5.265kg.
The youungest island on Earth is Surtsey, off the coast of Iceland. It was formed in 1963.
