Fact or Fiction?

Uranus is visible to the naked eye.

Benjamin Franklin was first to suggest daylight saving.

The most abundant metal in the Earths crust is aluminium.

It snowed in the Sahara desert on 18 February 1979.

On average, an iceberg weighs 20 million tons.

The far side of the moon was first photographed by a Russian satellite in 1959.

Captain Cook was the first man to set foot on all continents except Antarctica.

The diameter of the Moon is 3 476 km.

The pressure at the Earths inner core is 3 million times Earth’s atmospheric pressure.

200 million years ago Earth contained 1 land mass called Pangaea

At the deepest point, an iron ball would take more than an hour to sink to the ocean floor. ( 11.034 km )

The largest wave ever recorded was near the Japanese Island of Ishigaki in 1971. It was recorded at 85 metres high.