An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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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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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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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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