Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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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