The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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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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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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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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