Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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 earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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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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