The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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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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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 rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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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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