Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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