The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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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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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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