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There is a water cloud in space with one hundred and forty trillion times the water of Earth's oceans.

Why it is true

Astronomers detected a gigantic reservoir of water vapour surrounding a quasar twelve billion light-years away, proving that water has existed since the dawn of the universe.

Source: Astrophysics

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