Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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