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The Sun holds about 99.8% of all the mass in the solar system

The blood vessels in your body would stretch about 60,000 miles if uncoiled

Male pufferfish carve perfect seven-foot circles into the seabed to attract a mate, redrawing them grain by grain

Bone is stronger than steel pound for pound, yet far lighter

Neutron stars spin so fast that some complete hundreds of full rotations every second

The Great Pyramid stayed the tallest structure built by humans for nearly 3,800 years

Your nose can recognize and remember about a trillion distinct smells

Alaska’s Great Sitkin volcano keeps oozing lava inside its summit crater, holding the mountain at an orange alert for passing jets

A child’s tooth and green stones in a Pyrenees cave just revealed one of the oldest high-altitude mining camps ever found, 5,500 years old

Tardigrades can survive being frozen, boiled, dried out, and even left exposed to space

A shark can smell a single drop of blood diluted in a swimming pool of water

Apollo astronauts’ footprints may stay on the Moon almost unchanged, since there is no wind to erase them

A strong G3 geomagnetic storm is forecast to hit Earth Monday, pushing the northern lights as far south as Illinois and Oregon

A single gram of healthy soil can hold billions of living microbes

A day on Venus lasts longer than a full year on Venus

The Mariana Trench is so deep that Mount Everest could sink into it and still leave more than a mile of water overhead

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