Dumb Facts

There is a canyon on Mars that would stretch from New York to San Francisco.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined.
Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 18 inches per year as a result of draining the water table for human consumption.
Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in our solar system.
All the moons of the Solar System are named after Greek and Roman mythology, except the moons of Uranus, which are named after Shakesperean charcters.
The largest iceberg ever found was 208 miles long and 60 miles wide. That’s bigger than Massachusetts.
Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.
Most stars shine for at least 10 billion years.
White dwarf stars can be as small as 1,000 miles across.
Footprints astronauts make on the moon will remain for millions of years due to the fact that there’s no wind to blow them away.
A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
The clouds on Venus are made of deadly sulfuric acid.
The Galileo spacecraft traveled to Jupiter at a speed of 107,000 mph; fast enough to cross the U.S. in 85 seconds.
The rings of Saturn are made of ice chunks; some as small as an ice cube and some are as big as a house.
Scientists think the universe is 15 billion years old.

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