All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
5
It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
9
The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
131
A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
88
On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
7
The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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