The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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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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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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Sound doesn't travel 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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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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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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