Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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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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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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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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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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