A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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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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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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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 last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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