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Space fact #5472
Somewhere, roaming space, for all eternity, is The Grimmace. He needs no air, eats no food, but returns to earth every 1000 years to consume the flesh of the innocent. No one knows how much time is left on the clock. Last time he visited humans hadn't yet gotten around to the written word to document history. One thing IS for certain.
Nothing can kill The Grimmace.
1000 years? No written word last time? Mate, they did that several 1000 years ago. We have stuff from Ancient Egypt from 5000 years ago.
The earliest cuneiform writing is a tax receipt from The Grimmace
Fun fact: in the Americas (Wikipedia says only America and Canada, but I first came across this in South America—Chile or Bolivia, I think), Milky Ways are actually what the rest of us know as Mars Bars. An American Milky Way has nougat and caramel, just like an Australian or Eurasian Mars Bar.
The detail and clarity is amazing. Especially being taken from the equator.
The cosmos is truly amazing.
don't advertise junk food
Mars is inside the milky way, though.
"The Milky Way" refers both to our galaxy and to the astronomical phenomenon where a concentration of stars resembling a white band appears in the night sky (which is actually the galaxy viewed edge-on, which is why we named the galaxy after it once we learned what galaxies were.)