Gathering this info could be tedious for just 1 person, but I would happily volunteer to help find things to add - and if more wouldn't mind doing the same, we could have quite a database in a short time - even with people just helping out with it now and then on a random basis.
Some examples:
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The Speed of Light in Vacuum is 299,792,458 Meters or 186,282 miles per second.
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If the Red Giant Betelgeuse in the Orion Nebula swapped places with our Sun, its surface would extend out into our Solar System all the way out to Jupiter.
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There are an estimated 125-500 billion Galaxies in the known Universe. This number increases as technology is improved.
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The Milky Way is itself traveling at a pace of 552 to 630 KM/S, meaning we humans also travel at least that fast at any time.