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Reddit might just have a subreddit for every possible human conversation there is to have in this lifetime.

We kicked off a while back with a few fun subreddits to get into, but the science facts posted on the  r/AskReddit subreddit will do far more than just leave you amused.

It all started when Redditor u/analyzeTimes asked for examples of “a scientific fact that absolutely blows your mind”.

Digg has done a round-up of some of the best facts upvoted on the thread.

The collection of extraordinary morsels of knowledge that follow are easily packaged but incredibly difficult to wrap one’s head around.

Starting off with fact number one:

The Voyager 1 space probe has been traveling more than 30 000 metres per hour for 40 years but has only gone 20 light hours away (u/ruined-on-the-day)

The Voyager 1 in deep space:

While one user said they were laughing “in existential dread,” another commented that “if you had a dollar for every mile it had travelled, your wealth would still be closer to me than Jeff Bezos.”

Approximately 99,85% of all the mass in the solar system is concentrated in The Sun (u/Public_Breath6890)

That makes sense when you look at the size of the sun relative to the size of the other bodies in our solar system.

Also, remember that our solar system is composed of all the planets, satellites, asteroids, comets, etc.

You can fit all the planets (Pluto included) between the Earth & Moon (u/AnxiousIndicator)

One commenter gave a good reference, mentioning that the moon is about “30 Earths away” – so know you know exactly how vast the space is between us and our moon.

Dinosaurs were around so long that there were dinosaur fossils while dinosaurs were still alive (u/daric)

The original commenter of that fact later updated the post with this edit, plus a bonus comment:

When you dream, one portion of your brain creates the story, while another part witnesses the events and is really shocked by the plot twists (u/Longjumping_Owl9929)

If you put one of every animal into a bag and pulled one out, you’d have a one in five chance of picking a beetle (u/ItsStillNagy)

u/havron added to the comment with some more mind-numbing data about these little critters:

And 1/2 chance of picking an insect of any kind.

To put it another way: half of all animal species are insects, and 40% of those are beetles.

“If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles.” – evolutionary biologist J.B.S. Haldane

Thanks, Reddit.

Time to head off into the world just that little bit wiser.

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