Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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