See, it's funny because my first reaction - as I'm assuming many people's reaction is - was to say, "no, that's wrong...there are only two hydrogen atoms in a molecule of water, and there are way more than two stars in the galaxy."
Then I read it a little more closely and saw that it's claiming there are more hydrogens in a molecule or water than there are stars in the entire Solar System which is flatly true since there's only one star (the sun) at the center of our solar system.
It's misleading because "more _______ than there are stars in the galaxy" is a common phrase, and "more ______ than there are stars in the Solar System" is not a common phrase because it's dumb. It's just saying there's more than one of something.
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