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Does anyone have any interesting quick facts about the solar system? Anything at all.?

I'am making a quiz and I need Facts so that i can make them into questions. It's a multiple choice quiz so please be specific.

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1. Pluto is not a planet. You wanted quick.
2. Jupiter has the strongest gravitational pull, aside from the sun.
3. The Titius-Bode Relation (AKA "Bode's Law") predicted the size and position of some planets.
4. We recently lost one of our brethren planets and our Solar System has now only 8 planets, although it is believed that there is one more planet waaaaaaaaay past Pluto in orbit around the Sun. Also, we will loose our beautiful Moon someday. Every year the Moon gets 1 foot further from Earth. Sooner or later, Earth will loose its gravitational hold on the Moon and then... bye bye moon. But it doesn't matter because our Earth spins around its axis not in a perfect spin, but in a wobble. Some believe that the effects of this wobble are manifested in the present warming of our planet, and as a matter of fact, because of this wobble, the Earth will shift magnetic Poles (There is proof that that happened before) and cause tremendous weather changes that will destroy most life in our planet. The Mayan calendar, the Chinese prophetic books, the Egyptians and the Bible itself all seem to agree that that will happen in the year 2012. So, pay your debts for 4.5 more years and then... go get drunk, get laid and charge it all on credit. 'nough said.
5. No, no, no. Pluto is a planet. It's always been a planet, and it'll remain a planet long after all of us are long gone. That a very small minority of "them" voted Pluto out does not change anything. In this matter as in life in general, you have to decide whom you will accept as an authority.
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7. I did the same thing when I was in high school. You should ask the trick question: What planet is the furthest from our Sun? Most people will say Pluto even though it was recently considered to have been mistaken for a planet and booted out of the Solar System. So the answer is Neptune. Also... The mountains on Mars are 3 times the size of Earth's Mount Everest.
8. The moon's orbit around the earth is expanding; moving over an inch away from earth every year.