Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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