Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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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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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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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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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