Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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