25 Crazy Facts You Didn't Know About The Sun

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We see it every day (unless you live near one of the poles, in that case you have our condolences). But how much do we actually know about? Ok, so you probably know at least a few things. It's big, orange...wait a minute. You're already wrong. The sun isn't orange. And it's not yellow either. Check out these 25 crazy facts you didn't know about the sun and you might never look at it the same way again (hint: you should never look at the sun anyway...it's bad for your eyes)
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Ok, so you knew that, but did you know that it's brighter than 85% of everything else in the entire Milky Way?
It's not the brightest thing on Earth though. That record belongs to the skybeam at the Luxor Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.
One legend said it was a man with 3 eyes and 4 arms that was abandoned by his spouse for being too bright.
American historians and Russian scientists have connected revolutions to sunspots.
The American Revolution, French Revolution, Paris Commune, and both Russian Revolutions fell near times of maximum solar activity.
Most photos of the sun depict it as being orange, red, yellow or a combination of the three. In reality, the sun is white. It appears yellow to us because of the blue light in the Earth's atmosphere.
Galileo was the first to notice sunspots but he hid the discovery for fear of being persecuted.
The sun accounts for 44% of the Earth's tidal energy while the moon accounts for the remainder.
When the sun and moon are in apogee, or pulling the Earth in the same direction, our bodies our stretched albeit only microscopically.
In India pregnant women are sometimes kept indoors during an eclipse for fear that their babies will be born with cleft lips.
The same men who discovered the sun's source of power helped build the atomic bomb.
25% of people sneeze when exposed to sunlight.
Tromso, in the far north of Norway receives the same amount of annual sunlight as the tropics except all within a 10 week period.
It takes energy in the sun's core about 1 million years to reach the surface.
If you cut off a postage stamp sized portion of the sun it would shine with the intensity of 1.5 million candles
Everyone knows the sun can be yellow and orange but did you know that it can be green? This phenomenon known as green flash is very rare.
Every year the Earth absorbs 94 billion megawatts of energy from the sun. That's immensely more than the world's total energy use.
All the energy used by man since the dawn of civilization is roughly equal to 30 days of the sun's energy.
Every second the sun gives off the same amount of energy as 10 billion nuclear bombs.