The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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