Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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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 and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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