Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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