An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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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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MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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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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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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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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