These Bizarre Phenomenons Prove That Reality Is Stranger Than Fiction

This Cloud in Space Smells Just Like Rum

Sagittarius B2 is a gargantuan dust cloud that spans 150 lightyears, located around 390 lightyears from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. This particular cloud is so fascinating because it is primarily composed of ethyl formate, which imparts the scent of raspberries and rum.

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In fact, this celestial beast of a cloud contains enough ethyl alcohol to fill up 400 trillion pints of beer. To drink that much alcohol, every single person on earth would have to down a minimum of 300,000 beers a day every single day for one billion years. No college kegger could ever come close.

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.