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STUNNING SCIENCE 1. There is enough DNA in the average person’s body to stretch from the sun to Pluto and back — 17 times  2. The average human body carries ten times more bacterial cells than human cells  3. It takes a photon up to 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to its surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth  4. At over 2,000 kilometers long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth 5. There are 8 times as many atoms in a teaspoonful of water as there are teaspoonfuls of water in the Atlantic ocean 6. The average person walks the equivalent of five times around the world in a lifetime 7. When Helium is cooled to almost absolute zero (-460°F or -273°C, the lowest temperature possible), it becomes a liquid with surprising properties: it flows against gravity and will start running up and over the lip of a glass container!  8. If Betelgeuse exploded, transitioning from the red su...