If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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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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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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