The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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