The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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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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