The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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