The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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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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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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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