A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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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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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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