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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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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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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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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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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