All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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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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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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