The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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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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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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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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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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