A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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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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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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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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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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