The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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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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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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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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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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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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