In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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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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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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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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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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