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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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 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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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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