MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
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Japan has the most vending machines in the world (5.52 million) which is more than the population of New Zealand.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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