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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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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In 1859, the largest known geomagnetic storm struck the Caribbean, causing an aurora and telegraphs could even operate without a power source.
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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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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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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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