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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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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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 is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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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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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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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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