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The Atlantic widens about an inch a year as new seafloor forms

A strong geomagnetic storm can disrupt power grids and scramble GPS for hours

Your brain stays electrically active all night, sometimes more than when awake

Wombats are the only animals known to produce cube-shaped droppings

Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins by slowing their heart rate

Earth has more trees than the Milky Way has stars

The Ring of Fire produces about 90% of the world’s earthquakes

Your body is built from roughly 37 trillion cells, and nearly every one carries the same DNA

The observable universe stretches about 93 billion light-years across

At highway speed driving straight up, you would reach space in under an hour

Light from the Sun takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach Earth

The Sun burns through about 4 million tons of its own mass every second

A single honeybee colony can visit 50 million flowers in one day

Jupiter is so massive that every other planet could fit inside it

A June 6 solar blast is set to slam into Earth’s magnetic field Monday, with a second, weaker storm following Tuesday

About a third of the buried Roman city of Pompeii is still underground today

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