It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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