Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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