Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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