The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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