The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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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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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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