Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
17
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.
4
In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
14
The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
163
A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
88
Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
15
An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
82