💡The moon is moving away from the Earth at a tiny, although measurable, rate every year. 85 million years ago it was orbiting the Earth about 35 feet from the planet's surface.
💡The star Antares is 60,000 times larger than our sun. If our sun were the size of a softball, the star Antares would be as large as a house.
💡In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.
💡At any given time, there are 1,800 thunderstorms in progress over the earth's atmosphere.
💡Erosion at the base of Niagara Falls has caused the falls to recede approximately seven miles over the past 10,000 years.
💡A ten-year-old mattress weighs double what it did when it was new due to debris that it absorbs over time. That debris includes dust mites (their droppings and decaying bodies), mold, millions of dead skin cells, dandruff, animal and human hair, secretions, excretions, lint, pollen, dust, soil, sand, and a lot of perspiration, which the average person loses at a rate of a quart a day. Good night!
💡Every year 16 million gallons of oil runs off pavement into streams, rivers, and eventually, oceans in the United States.
💡This is more oil than was spilled by the Exxon Valdez.
In space, astronauts cannot cry because there is no gravity and tears can't flow.
💡Most lipstick contains fish scales.
💡A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.
💡If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies you have $1.19. you also have the largest possible amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
💡Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.
💡Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to operate a television for three hours.
💡The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
The main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch a year. When it was designed engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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