The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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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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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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