Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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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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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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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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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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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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