The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
13
The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
5
An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
82
There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
20
All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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