It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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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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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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