A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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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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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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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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