Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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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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