The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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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 has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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