The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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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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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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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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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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