Luke Lawliet wrote...
There are 100,000 times as many stars in the universe as sounds and words ever uttered by all humans who have ever lived.
The nervous system allows only 1 billionth of the information available to one person at any given time.
The human brain has been estimated to contain 50–100 billion neurons, of which about
10 billion are cortical pyramidal cells. These cells pass signals to each other via as many as 1000 trillion synaptic connections.
Because light takes time to travel from one place to another, the farther out in space you look, the farther back in time you see. With our most powerful telescopes, we can observe the universe all the way back to its earliest moments -- all the way back to the Big Bang itself.
Dark matter and dark energy make up 94 percent of the universe. We can measure their existence, yet we have no idea what they are.
Is it weird i knew that when i entered middle school yet i wasn't a nerd.