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201/ Our Sun contains almost
1000 times more matter than all the planets put together.
202/ Spaceprobe Voyager 2
visited four planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
between 1979 and 1989.
203/ Mercury's "day"
- sunrise to sunrise - is longer than its year.
204/ The day of Venus is 117
Earth days long.
205/ Venus is so hot its surface
glows in the dark.
206/ Venus rotates backwards,
as compared to all the other planets.
207/ The largest island on
Earth is Greenland. It covers 840,070 square miles.
208/ At 320 miles long, the
Lambert-Fisher glacier in Antarctica is the longest glacier
in the world.
209/ The deepest freshwater
lake in the world is Lake Baikal in Russia. It is just over
a mile deep.
210/ In 1957 in Sputnik 2
the first dog, Laika was launched into space.
211/ Venus's clouds are made
of concentrated sulfuric acid.
212/ Mars has the biggest
volcano in the Solar System, Olympus Mons - large enough to
cover Spain, and three times the height of Everest.
213/ Astronomers have discovered
over 10,000 asteroids - but put them together and they would
be smaller than the Moon.
214/ Jupiter is big enough
to swallow all the other planets.
215/ The Empire State Building
in New York contains 60,000 tons of steel and 6,500 windows.
216/ Hippos have killed more
than 400 people in Africa - more than any other wild animal.
217/ Jupiter's Great Red Spot
is a hurricane three times the size of planet Earth.
218/ The Empire State building
is served by 73 lifts.
219/ Halley's comet appears
every 76 years and can next be seen in 2061.
220/ A shark is the only fish
that can blink with both eyes.
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