Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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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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    A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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    The Mystery of the Black Knight Satellite
    There's a mysterious satellite of unknown origin that's orbiting Earth. Dubbed the Black Knight Satellite, astronomers have been reporting strange radio signals allegedly coming from the satellite since the 1930s - before NASA or the Soviet Union put satellites into space.
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    Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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    The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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