In the United States birds and planes collided more than 22,000 times between the years of 1990 and 1998.

Our oldest radio broadcasts of the 1930s have already travelled past 100,000 stars.

Richard Versalle, a tenor performing at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, suffered a heart attack and fell 10 feet from a ladder to the stage just after singing the line "You can only live so long."

AMAZING FACTS