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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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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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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