The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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 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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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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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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