The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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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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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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