Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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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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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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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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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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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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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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