Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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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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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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