Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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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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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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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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