The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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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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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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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