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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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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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 typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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