The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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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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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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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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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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