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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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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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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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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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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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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