NASA invented baby food as we know it today.
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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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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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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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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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