An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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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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