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 is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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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.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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