More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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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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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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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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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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