Sound doesn't travel in space.
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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
115
Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
9
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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