There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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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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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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