Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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