The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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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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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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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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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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