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1. The speed of light is approximately 299,792,458 meters per second, making it the fastest known phenomenon in the universe.
2. Human DNA, if unraveled, would stretch from the Earth to the Sun and back approximately 70 times.
3. The existence of black holes was predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, but they were not officially confirmed until 1971.
4. The Earth's core is believed to be hotter than the surface of the Sun, reaching temperatures of up to 5,500 degrees Celsius.
5. The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was -128.6 degrees Fahrenheit (-89.2 degrees Celsius) in Antarctica in 1983.
6. At any given moment, there are approximately 2,000 thunderstorms occurring on Earth, producing an estimated 100 lightning strikes per second.
7. The planet Mars has the tallest known volcano in our solar system, Olympus Mons, which stands at a whopping 13.6 miles (22 kilometers) high.
8. Human beings share approximately 50% of their DNA with bananas.
9. A teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh about 6 billion tons, making it one of the densest objects in the universe.
10. The human brain is capable of holding approximately 2.5 petabytes (or 2.5 million gigabytes) of information, which is equivalent to about 3 million hours of television shows.