Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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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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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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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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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 is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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