Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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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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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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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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