Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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