The first significant awards ceremony to be held which sought to specifically honour those working in the music industry, was the Grammys on the 4th May 1959. The Album of the Year on that first occasion went to Henry Mancini for Peter Gunn.

Other than the hydrogen and oxygen that make up the water molecules, the most plentiful element in seawater is chlorine.

Jumbo Jets have carried the equivalent of 1.6 million passengers to the Moon and back.

Mayflies live for a year or more as larvae; but as adults they live for only a few hours.

Fata Morgana are visions in which landforms that are beyond the horizon appear to float above it in an inverted form.

After about 1,000 million years of exclusively bacterial life on Earth, perhaps the most important and dramatic event in the history of life took place - the origin of the eukaryotes. Eukaryotes differ strikingly from prokaryotes by the possession of a nucleus surrounded by a membrane and containing individual chromosomes.

Resonance is the enhancement of sound caused when the echo, or reflection of a sound wave, arrives back to its source and is joined by another wave. The original sound is reinforced and sounds fuller. For example, this occurs when the sound of a guitar is echoing inside the guitar's body while the string is producing more sounds at the same time.

infra read lasers are now being used to heat up and vaporise layers of dirt on ancient buildings and sculptures.

The sun’s reflective powers are great - 17 percent on sand and 80 percent on snow. Even on a cloudy day, 80 percent of the sun’s ultraviolet rays pass through the clouds; so you need sunscreen even when it is overcast.