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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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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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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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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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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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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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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