Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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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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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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