The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
118
It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
569
Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
17
The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
115
All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
194
It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
159
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.
4
If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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