The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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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 moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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