Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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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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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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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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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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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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