The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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