The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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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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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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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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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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