It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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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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