Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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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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