The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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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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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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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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