The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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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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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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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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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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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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