The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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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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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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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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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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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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