The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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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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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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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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