More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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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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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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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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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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