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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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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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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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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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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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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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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