It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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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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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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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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