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 heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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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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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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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.
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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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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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