It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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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 moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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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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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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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 ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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