One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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 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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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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