The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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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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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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