One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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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