The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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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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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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