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NASA has recently released their new Earth from orbit video for 2014. It shows off some awe inspiring pictures. youtu.be/2uL8LX4LmbA

Monarch butterfly populations have dropped 90% since the 90s. From 1 billion to just 35 million

Just a cool picture showing off the size of Saturn's rings

The human brain takes in 11 million bits of information every second but is aware of only 40.

If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.

The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.

If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.

Light would take .13 seconds to travel around the Earth.

A medium-sized cumulus cloud weighs about the same as 80 elephants.

Italy's first female astronaut arrives at space station: NASA blink.htcsense.com/web/artic…

There are 8 times as many atoms in a teaspoonful of water as there are teaspoonfuls of water in the Atlantic ocean.

A single bolt of lightning contains enough energy to cook 100,000 pieces of toast

About 65 billion neutrinos will pass through your fingernail in a second

Do you love sriracha sauce? Turns out that love is because of chemistry businessinsider.com/chemistr…

If all the LEGO bricks ever made were clipped on top of one another, they would make a tower ten times as high as the distance to the Moon.

@hanslain it would be an amazing experience if it was possible to do it and survive

If you drilled a tunnel straight through the Earth and jumped in, it would take you 42 minutes and 12 seconds to get to the other side

A bad marriage could literally break your heart, new research suggests that a bad relationship causes problems with cardiovascular health

Collectively speaking, humans have spent longer playing World of Warcraft than we have existed as a species separate from chimpanzees.

Your Complicated Job Might Keep Your Brain Young blink.htcsense.com/web/artic…