The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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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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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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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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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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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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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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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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