A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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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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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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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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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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