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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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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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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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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