The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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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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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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