The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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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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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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