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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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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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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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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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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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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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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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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