The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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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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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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