Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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