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  The Earth’s equatorial circumference (40,075 km) is greater than its polar circumference (40,008 km).


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  Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world.


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  Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.


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  The Earth’s average velocity orbiting the sun is 107,220 km per hour.


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  There is a high and low tide because of our moon and the Sun.


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  The United States consumes 25% of all the world’s energy.


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  Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.


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  There is enough fuel in a full tank of a Jumbo Jet to drive an average car four times around the world.


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  The surface speed record on the moon is 10.56 miles per hour. It was set with the lunar rover.


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  If you could drive to the sun -- at 55 miles per hour -- it would take about 193 years


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  The moon is one million times drier than the Gobi Desert.


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  Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11’s lunar module landed on the moon.


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  A Boeing 707 uses four thousand gallons of fuel in its take-off climb.


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  The planet Saturn has a density lower than water. So, if placed in water it would float.


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  Since 1959, more than 6,000 pieces of ’space junk’ (abandoned rocket and satellite parts) have fallen out of orbit - many of these have hit the earth’s surface.

Also See,

1. Science Facts for You - Part 01
   
2. Science Facts for You - Part 02
   
3. Science Facts for You - Part 03
   
4. Science Facts for You - Part 04
   
5. Science Facts for You - Part 05
   
6. Science Facts for You - Part 06
   
7. Science Facts for You - Part 07
   
8. Science Facts for You - Part 08
   
9. Science Facts for You - Part 09
   
10. Science Facts for You - Part 10
    
11. Science Facts for You - Part 11
    
12. Science Facts for You - Part 12

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