The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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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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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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