A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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