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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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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