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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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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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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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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