It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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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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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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When a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents reportedly called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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In 1859, the largest known geomagnetic storm struck the Caribbean, causing an aurora and telegraphs could even operate without a power source.
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MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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