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TIL the worlds largest scale model of the Solar system exist in Sweden. The Sun is a large spherical arena in Stockholm with 110m in diameter. 300km north of it is Pluto, a small sphere of 12 cm in diameter constructed next to a lake believed to have been created by a meteorite impact.

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