Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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