The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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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.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
4
If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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