Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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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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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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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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