The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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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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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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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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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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