A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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