A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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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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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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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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