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A light-year is the distance covered by light in a single year.

Light moves at the velocity of about 186,411 miles (300,000 km) a second.

So one light-year equates to roughly 5,903,026,326,255 miles!

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What starts out tall, but the longer it stands, the shorter it grows?
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Betty Botter bought a bit of butter.

But, she said, this butter's bitter.

If I put it in my batter It will make my batter bitter.

But a bit of better butter Will make my batter better.

So she bought a bit of butter, Better than her bitter. 🤭

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The International Space Station is the largest manned object ever sent into space.

At 119 yards (109 meters) long, the International Space Station (ISS) sits roughly 250 miles (400 km) above the Earth and is the third-brightest object in the night sky.

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Only 5% of the universe is visible from Earth.

68% of the universe is dark energy and 27% is dark matter. Both of these are invisible, even with a telescope, which means we are only able to see 5% of the universe.

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What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
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The Eiffel Tower “grows” in the summer.

Due to the heat expansion of the tower’s iron in the summer sun, the Eiffel Tower’s height can grow by up to 6 inches!

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What word looks the same upside down and backwards?
What is the Hunter’s Moon?

The hunter’s moon is the full moon at the end of October.

Generally, it occurs every October; however, it is replaced with the Harvest Moon every three years.

In the Northern Hemisphere, the full moon at the end of October provides light to hunters.

It is the best time of year to start hunting for game.

The full moon acts as an indicator and also provides brighter skies for hunting and seeing prey.

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Human blood cells have different lifespans.

Red blood cells circulate the human body for about four months. In comparison, white blood cells range from a few hours to several days.

Platelets circulate the body for about nine days. Platelets are cells that circulate our blood, and they bind together when they find damaged blood vessels.

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What does December have that other months don't have?
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How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, If a woodchuck would chuck wood?

A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck, If a woodchuck would chuck wood.

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Google searches hit the billions every month.

There are over 35 billion Google searches each month.

In May 2019, the top three most Googled words were “Facebook” at 233 million searches, “youtube” with 194 million searches, and “amazon” with 103 million searches.

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What can be cracked, made, told, and played?
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Outer Space is only 62 miles away.

Although there is no official solid boundary for where space begins, the Kármán line sits at 62 miles above sea-level and is conventionally used as the start of outer space in space treaties or for aerospace records keeping.

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What are the only two mammals that lay eggs?

Only two kinds of egg-laying mammals are left on the planet today—the duck-billed platypus and the echidna, or spiny anteater. These odd “monotremes” once dominated Australia, until their pouch-bearing cousins, the marsupials, invaded the land down under 71 million to 54 million years ago and swept them away.

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The Sun weighs about 330,000 times more than Earth.

It is about 109 times the diameter of Earth and is so large the Earth could fit inside the sun about 1,300,000 times over!

In fact, the sun is so gigantic that it contains 99.85% of all mass in our solar system.

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Due to the Sun and Moon’s gravitational pull, we have tides.

This is because the Moon’s tidal force causes the Earth – and the water on it – to bulge out on the side closest to the Moon.

These bulges are what cause the world’s high tides.

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What occurs once a minute, twice every Millennium, but never in a hundred years?
Antarctica is the world’s largest desert.

The Antarctic Polar Desert covers the Antarctica continent and covers roughly 5.5 million square miles.

The Sahara Desert covers roughly 3.6 million square miles.

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