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A teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh billions of tons.

Why it is true

Neutron stars are incredibly dense. A volume the size of a teaspoon of their material would weigh about six billion tons on Earth, equivalent to the weight of Mount Everest.

Source: NASA

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