Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
11
The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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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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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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