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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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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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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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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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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