All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
194
The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
145
The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
115
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
127
Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
224
A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
5
Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
120
Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
131