The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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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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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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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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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MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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