The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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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 volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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