51 mind blowing facts!!!!!
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The sun makes up more than 99% of the mass of the solar system.
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Humans can distinguish between at least a trillion smells.
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Almost every element in your body was made in an exploding star.
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An asteroid in our solar system has rings, like Saturn.
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There might be another Earth-sized planet in the outer solar system.
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A narwhal's tusk is filled with nerves.
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Each of a tarsier's eyeballs is as big as its brain.
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If you shuffle a pack of cards properly, chances are that exact order has never been seen before in the whole history of the universe.
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Adults have fewer bones than a baby.
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Humans can't breathe and swallow at the same time.
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There are about 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms in a human body.
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There are about 86 billion neurons in an average human brain.
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Every atom in your body is billions of years old.
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There's a type of mollusc called a chiton that can make its own magnetic teeth.
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Bees sense a flower's electric field and use it to find pollen.
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Beaked whales can hold their breath for over two hours.
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Mantis shrimp can punch at 80 kilometres per hour.
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The universe might be a hologram.
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There's a gas cloud in the constellation of Aquila that contains enough alcohol to make 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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Looking at stars is basically looking into the past, because of how long it takes the light from them to reach us.
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Dung beetles can use the Milky Way to navigate.
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The Milky Way has four spiral arms, not two.
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If you cry in space the tears just stick to your face.
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During the ice age, 32,000 years ago, a squirrel buried a seed. Now the seed has been used to grow a flower.
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We've found over a thousand planets outside our solar system just in the last 20 years.
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There's a planet where it rains glass, sideways.
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The world's oceans contain 20 million tons of gold.
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If the oceans dried out, the salt left over would cover the continents to a depth of 5 feet.
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There are more cells of bacteria in your body than there are human cells.
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There's a species of jellyfish that is essentially immortal.
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Ladybirds can fly at speeds up to 60 kph.
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There's a 3.5-inch aluminium sculpture on the moon.
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Scientists have found a tiny crystal of zircon that is 4.4 billion years old.
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You can listen to what interstellar space sounds like.
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It takes a photon, on average, 170,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to the surface.
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Then it takes just 8 minutes from the sun's surface to your eyes.
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A Mars-sized object crashed into Earth 4.5 billion years ago, chipping off a chunk of rock that became the moon, and making the Earth's axis tilt slightly.
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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12345678987654321.
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Our first ancestor to walk on land was a four-legged fish called Tiktaalik.
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Teenage brains really are different to adult ones.
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There are roughly 2 pints of water in every cubic foot of soil on Mars.
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You can use a blue whale's wax earplug to work out its life history.
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There's a mammal in Australia that has sex until it disintegrates.
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An orgasm can clear your sinuses.
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There's a mantis that can camouflage itself to look exactly like an orchid.
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There's an insect that has gears.
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Life expectancy has doubled over the last 150 years.
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Atoms are mostly empty space.
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If you removed all the empty space from the atoms that make up all the humans on Earth, the remaining mass could fit inside a sugar cube.
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In the history of the Earth, we're closer to Tyrannosaurus rex than T. rex is to stegosaurus.
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Birds are dinosaurs.
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@syasyakitten said in 51 mind blowing facts!!!!!:
If you shuffle a pack of cards properly, chances are that exact order has never been seen before in the whole history of the universe.
What's the probability of seeing the same exact order ;)
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i wonder how much time it took you to collect all those
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@syasyakitten 52. Your nationality is English 😁😁
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I knew most of them, but still this is awesome. Glad you shared it.
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*51 mind-blowing, most of them space, facts !!!
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facts are truely mind blowing!
