The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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