It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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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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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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