Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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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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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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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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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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