The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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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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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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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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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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