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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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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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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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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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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