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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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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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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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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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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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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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