The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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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 lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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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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