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Interesting fact: the sun becomes 1 million tons lighter every second.
Diet specialists hate this trick.
It's simply burning calories.
Lighter or brighter?
The ton is not a unit of brightness
You sure? The wacky system of units has a lot of different meanings for the word ton. Among others, it is a measure of power.
Is brightness ever measured in tons?
Yes.