There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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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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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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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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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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