Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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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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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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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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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