In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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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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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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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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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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