There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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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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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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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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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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