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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

The human eye can spot a single candle flame from about 1.6 miles away

A single bolt of lightning heats the air around it to about 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit, five times hotter than the surface of the Sun

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

Space is completely silent, because there is no air to carry sound

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center warned waves up to 10 feet were possible along Philippine coasts after Monday’s powerful quake

Some bristlecone pines are over 4,800 years old, older than the pyramids of Egypt

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