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Fast facts: The sun is 330,330 times larger than Earth. The sun isn't round. It is flattened on the top and the bottom. A car traveling at a constant speed of 60 miles per hour would take longer than 48 million years to reach the nearest star (other than the sun), Proxima Centauri. This is about 685,000 average human lifetimes. A cosmic year is the amount of time it takes the sun to revolve around the center of the Milky Way, about 225 million years. A new star is born in our galaxy every 18 days. About 20 new stars are born each year. In comparison, there are 100,000 million stars in our galaxy. A teaspoon of neutron star material weighs about 110 million tons. About 68 percent of adults believe that during the next century, evidence will be discovered that shows other life in this or other galaxies.

 

On this date: In 1794, the U.S. Senate first opened to the public. In 1861, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state. In 1916, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presented its first concert. In 1936, water pumping began for building Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. In 1970, Japan became the fourth nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit. In 1990, James "Buster" Douglas knocked out Mike Tyson to win the heavyweight boxing crown.

 

Quotable... "I was on the street, and suddenly, the two got out of a car and started firing in all directions. They were spraying from the hip in all directions. I whipped out my gun and started firing back at them." - Israeli army Capt. Guy Shaham to Israel Radio after two Palestinian gunmen were shot and killed after killing two Israeli soldiers and injuring five people.