The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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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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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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