The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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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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