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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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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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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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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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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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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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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