The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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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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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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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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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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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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