According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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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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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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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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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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