The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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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 Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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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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