Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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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