The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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