I Never Knew That Mercury Was The Closest Planet To The Earth,

and all other planets most of the time,

I had been brainwashed into thinking it was Venus or Mars, that is how I learned the planets in their order from the sun, but in reality they do not line up that way, here is an amazing visualization of the planets in orbit around the sun, in their own speeds and paths, so now I know, Mercury is closes to all of the planets most of the time!