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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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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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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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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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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