All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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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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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.
4
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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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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