Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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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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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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