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.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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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 light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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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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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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