The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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