There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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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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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 earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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