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.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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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 earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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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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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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