The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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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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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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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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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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