The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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