Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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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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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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