Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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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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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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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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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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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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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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