Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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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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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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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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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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