All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
194
There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
11
It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
569
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.
5
Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
100
The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
236
If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
808