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Greenland sharks can live for centuries, outlasting the ships that first spotted them

A blue whale’s heart is roughly the size of a small car and beats through miles of ocean

The immortal jellyfish can reset its own body and effectively cheat death

A single powerful solar flare can race from the Sun to Earth in about eight minutes

The Oort Cloud may stretch a quarter of the way to the nearest star

Venus spins so slowly that a single day there lasts longer than its year

Saturn’s rings are slowly raining down and will one day disappear

A supermassive black hole lurks at the very center of our own Milky Way

Rogue planets drifting without a star may outnumber the stars in our galaxy

The Andromeda galaxy is drifting on a slow collision course with the Milky Way

Asteroid Bennu carries a tiny but real chance of striking Earth in the year 2182

China sealed its first emperor’s tomb and guarded it with an army of thousands of clay soldiers

Peru’s Sacsayhuaman walls use stones so massive no one fully agrees how they were moved

The Sahara hides a giant eye-shaped formation only visible from space

The Nazca Lines only reveal their giant animal shapes from thousands of feet in the air

The Longyou Caves in China were carved entirely by hand and no records explain why