It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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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