Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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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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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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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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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.
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