An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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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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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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In 1859, the largest known geomagnetic storm struck the Caribbean, causing an aurora and telegraphs could even operate without a power source.
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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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