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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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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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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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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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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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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