A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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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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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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