The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
100
There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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