The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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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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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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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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