The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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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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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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