All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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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 volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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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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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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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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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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