According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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According to a 2011 poll, 32% of Russians believe that the Sun orbits Earth.
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In 1859, the largest known geomagnetic storm struck the Caribbean, causing an aurora and telegraphs could even operate without a power source.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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