All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
13
Sound doesn't travel in space.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
5
Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
4
Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
17
One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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