It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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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 is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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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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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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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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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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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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