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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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