| Universe Facts |
| Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day. |
| At one time the earth consisted of one land mass and a huge body of water. Geologists today call the land Pangaea (from the Greek words "all land" while the water was called Panthalassa (from the Greek words "all sea"). Between 180 and 200 million years ago, Pangaea split into two parts: Laurasia, which consisted of North America, Europe and Asia; and Gondwanaland, which consisted of Africa, South America, India, Antarctica and Australia. |
| Astronauts brought back about 800 pounds of lunar rock to Earth. Most of it has not been analyzed. |
| Approximately 40,000 tons of meteoric dust hits the Earth each year. |
| According to Hawaiian lore, the earth mother Papa mated with the sky father Wake to give birth to the Hawaiian Islands. |
| The universe is so vast in relation to the matter it contains that it can be compared in the following way: A building 20 miles long, 20 miles wide and 20 miles high that contains 1 grain of sand. |
| The three most common elements in the universe are 1) hydrogen; 2) helium; 3) oxygen. |
| As late as 1820, the universe was thought to be 6,000 years old. It is now thought to be between 15 and 20 billion years old. |
| Scientists believe that hydrogen comprises approximately 90 to 99 percent of all matter in the Universe. |
| A bucket filled with earth would Weigh about five times more than the same bucket filled with the substance of the sun. However, the force of Gravity is so much greater on the sun that a man Weighing 150 pounds on our planet would Weigh 2 tons on the sun. |
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