The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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