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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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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