Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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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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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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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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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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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