Sound doesn't travel in space.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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When a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents reportedly called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.
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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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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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