Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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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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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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