It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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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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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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