All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
194
The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
10
On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
7
It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
569
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.
20
The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
163
Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
224
Pluto is smaller than Russia.
9