The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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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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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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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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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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