Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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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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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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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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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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