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TIL It’s just kind of a strange coincidence not found anywhere else. The diameter of the Sun is about 400 times larger than that of the Moon,but it is also roughly 400 times farther away from Earth. These two qualities almost cancel each other out, and the Sun usually winds up looking the same size.

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