The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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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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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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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 population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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