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 more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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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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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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When a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents reportedly called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.
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