Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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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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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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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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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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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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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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