According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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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.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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The sun sets on 24 December at 3.55pm in the UK, and rises the following morning at 8.05am.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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A third of the human population sneezes when they look at the Sun. Light can signal the ocular nerve near the sinuses and triggers a sneeze.
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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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