The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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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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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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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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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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