It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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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.
20
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.
4
If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
14
Pluto is smaller than Russia.
9
Sound doesn't travel in space.
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