Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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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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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 temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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