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MUNDANE MYSTERIES: Sunlight takes HOW LONG to get to us?

This stat completely blew my mind when I ready it today. Maybe you already knew this from science class back in the day, and maybe I did too, but I certainly forgot until right now.

The sunlight you see out your window right now is 8 and a half minutes old. Let that sink in. It takes EIGHT and a HALF minutes for sunlight to reach us.

Insane!

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