Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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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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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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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