The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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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 heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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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 neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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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 center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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