The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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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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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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