During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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