The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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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 neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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