The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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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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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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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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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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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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