All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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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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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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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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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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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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