Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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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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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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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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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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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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