The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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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 earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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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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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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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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