Random Space Facts

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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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    In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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    Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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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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    A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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    Anti-Comet Pills
    Anti-Comet Pills
    In 1910, as Earth passed through the tail of Halley's Comet, people bought "Anti-Comet Pills", special "comet umbrellas", and gas masks, because there was public hysteria that all life on Earth would be destroyed by gas - called cyanogen - that was detected in the tail.
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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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