Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
20
If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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