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A black hole's gravity is so strong that not even light can escape once it crosses the event horizon.
The cold vacuum of space is only a few degrees above absolute zero.
There are stars in the night sky whose light began traveling toward Earth before humans evolved.
The atoms that make up your body are replaced over time, meaning you are physically not the same person you were years ago.
A single lightning bolt can contain enough energy to power a home for several days.
There are places in the ocean where pressure is over 1,000 times greater than at sea level.
The human brain can process images in as little as 13 milliseconds.
Some supernova explosions release more energy in a few seconds than the Sun will produce in its entire lifetime.
The International Space Station is visible to over 90% of the human population at some point during its orbit.
The largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons on Mars, is nearly three times taller than Mount Everest.
There are photons of light traveling through space right now from stars that no longer exist.
A neutron star is so dense that a single teaspoon would weigh about 6 billion tons on Earth.
If you were standing on the Moon, you would see footprints from 1969 that may still be there millions of years from now.
The atoms in your body will likely exist long after the Earth is gone.
There are stars that will burn for trillions of years.
The human brain continues developing into your midβtwenties.
Some deepβsea fish create their own light.
The observable universe contains hundreds of billions of galaxies.
There are galaxies moving away faster than light due to expanding space.
Your bones constantly rebuild themselves.
There are planets with winds faster than the speed of sound.
The energy released by the Sun every second equals billions of nuclear bombs.
There are storms on Jupiter that have lasted for centuries.
The human genome contains about 3 billion base pairs.
Some space probes will outlive Earth itself.
The Earth's core is nearly as hot as the surface of the Sun.
There are clouds in space made of alcohol molecules.
The deepest drilling into Earth reached only about 0.2% of the distance to the center.
Your body produces about 300 billion new cells every day.
There are stars that orbit each other so closely they share material.
The human nervous system can transmit signals faster than a Formula One car.
The universe is estimated to be about 13.8 billion years old.
Some animals can survive without oxygen for days.
The Sun loses about 4 million tons of mass every second through energy radiation.
There are places in the ocean deeper than the height of Mount Everest.
The human brain consumes roughly the same power as a small light bulb.
Saturn's rings are made mostly of ice and rock.
There are volcanoes taller than Mount Everest on other planets.
The Earth's magnetic field flips polarity every few hundred thousand years.
There are particles from distant supernova explosions passing through your body right now.
The Moon is moving away from Earth at about the same rate fingernails grow.
Some galaxies contain trillions of stars.
A blue whale's heart is large enough for a human to swim through its major arteries.
There are more bacteria in your body than human cells.
The energy from the Sun that reaches Earth in one hour could power the entire world for a year.
There are caves so large they contain their own rivers and ecosystems.
Lightning strikes Earth about 100 times every second.
The average human body contains enough carbon to make about 9,000 pencils.
The speed at which galaxies move apart increases with distance due to the expansion of space itself.
There are underwater waterfalls caused by differences in water density.