There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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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