The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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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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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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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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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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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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