Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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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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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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