All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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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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