The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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