Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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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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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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