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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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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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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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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