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Lightning strikes somewhere on Earth about 8 million times a day

By BeckhamLangford

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A bolt of lightning is roughly five times hotter than the surface of the Sun

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Mount Everest grows a few millimeters taller each year as two plates keep colliding

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Saturn now has at least 146 known moons, more than any other planet

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There may be more than 100 billion planets in the Milky Way alone

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Saturn is so light it would float if you could find an ocean big enough

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The Sun burns through about four million tons of its own mass every second

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Neutron stars are so dense that a sugar-cube of their matter would weigh billions of tons

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The observable universe stretches roughly 93 billion light-years across

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Light from the Sun takes about eight minutes and twenty seconds to reach us

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Earth’s atmosphere has no sharp edge; it simply fades into space

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Alaska’s Great Sitkin volcano keeps oozing lava in its summit crater, holding an orange alert for jets

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GPS satellites must correct for Einstein’s relativity or your location would drift off by miles

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Earth’s days are slowly getting longer as the Moon tugs on the tides

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The Sun looks white, not yellow, once you leave Earth’s atmosphere

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Saturn’s moon Titan has rivers and seas filled with liquid methane

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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a single storm wider than the whole Earth

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The Moon drifts about 3.8 centimeters farther from Earth every year

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Mercury hides water ice inside polar craters the Sun never reaches

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NASA’s Bennu samples also held a gum-like material and dust forged in exploding stars

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