An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
5
There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
4
Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
6
The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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