The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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