Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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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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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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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.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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