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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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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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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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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