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What is /sci/'s best defender and why is it cooll science facts?

>>6724971
> Oh My God particle

I was going to bash you for posting popsci but I checked this thing out and it's real. It's one of those things so fucking huge that it's hopeless to try and make the public understand how spectacularly big they are, so they remain unknown.

>>6724902
10/10 gave me vertigo

>>6706973

Did you know that:

More than 60 Jews died during WW2.
Some numbers are bigger than others!
There has lived more than 6 million people since the dawn of man.
Some people can actually run faster than some types of animals.
There are many types of trees!
Scientists thinks it exists at least 100 types of insects!
0.999... is very close to 1
It took more than 1000 years for monkeys to evolve into humans.
A single elephant is heavier than 3 full grown men!
There are more planets in the Andromeda galaxy than there are on Earth.
Women in general are weaker then men.
There will always be a dog somewhere that understands more of a foreign language than you.
There are more than 700 MB (a full CD) of data on the internet combined.
There is at least 1 mole of water in the average human body.
Modern computers can make over ten calculations per minute!
There are literally dozens of grains of sand in Sahara!
The nearest galaxy is so far away that it takes light more than twelve minutes to get from there to here!
Five thousand grams of cyanide is enough to kill a person.
The Sun is hot enough to set paper on fire.
Some people have been known to live for more than 50 years!
Some books have over 1,000 words in them!
Humans have been communicating with spoken language for over 100 years.
There are more atoms in your body than hairs on your head!
Less people are killed by bears than from World War 1 and World War 2 combined.
Did you know that if you drive at a speed of 50 km/h for 1 hour, you can get to a place 50 km away?
Your skin covers most of your body's surface.
Some times mathematicians use the letter x to describe an independant variable.
Mt. Everest is taller than the average building!
There are many species!
The surface of the Earth covers most, if not all of the surface of the Earth!
The speed of light is so fast that no spacecraft has ever caught up to it!
Every 60 minutes in Africa, a hour passes by

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