The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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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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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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