Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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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 last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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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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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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