From the nitrogen in our DNA, to the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, to the carbon in our apple pies - all were made in the interiors of collapsing stars; we're all made of stardust.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
349
Sound doesn't travel in space.
255
Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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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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