An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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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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