Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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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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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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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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