The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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