An interesting fact I came across today:
All the diagrams you’ve ever seen of the solar system are wrong, because it’s impossible to show all of the planets in the correct proportion and with the correct distances.
If we reduced the Earth to the size of a pea for example, Jupiter would be 1000 feet away, Pluto would be a mile and a half away (not to mention that it would be the size of a bacterium, invisible to you), and Proxima Centauri, the next nearest star, would be over ten thousand miles away.
(From Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything)