There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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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 Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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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 volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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