The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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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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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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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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