In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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