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  • 5,865,696,000,000 – The amount of miles in a light year.
  • By some estimates, there are about a million earthquakes a day, although most are too small to be felt by even the most sensitive.
  • In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can’t flow!
  • Scientists think the universe is 15 billion years old.
  • The rings of Saturn are made of ice chunks; some as small as an ice cube and some are as big as a house.
  • The Galileo spacecraft traveled to Jupiter at a speed of 107,000 mph; fast enough to cross the U.S. in 85 seconds.
  • The clouds on Venus are made of deadly sulfuric acid.
  • A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 24 billion years to reach the nearest star.
  • Footprints astronauts make on the moon will remain for millions of years due to the fact that there’s no wind to blow them away.
  • White dwarf stars can be as small as 1,000 miles across.
  • Most stars shine for at least 10 billion years.
  • Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.
  • The largest iceberg ever found was 208 miles long and 60 miles wide. That’s bigger than Massachusetts.
  • Saturn isn’t the only planet with rings: Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune have them, too.
  • It takes light 8 minutes to trave from the sun to earth.
  • The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
  • The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
  • The sun is 93,000,000 miles from the earth.
  • The Sun shrinks in diameter by 5 feet every hour.
  • Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
  • There is enough energy in one bolt of lightning to power a home for two weeks.
  • Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women!
  • Io, a moon of jupiter, has the most active volcanoes in the solar system.
  • Hydrogen can be a metal, but it is only in a solid state under extreme conditions such as being in the core of Jupiter!
  • Rain falls at an average speed of 22 mph.
  • Dirty snow melts faster than white snow because it’s darker and absorbs more heat.
  • At 90′ below zero your breath will freeze in mid-air and fall to the ground.
  • The circumference of the Earth at the equator is 24,896 miles.
  • There is a canyon on Mars that would stretch from New York to San Francisco.
  • In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined.
  • The energy given off by a hurricane in one day would power the entire U.S for three years.
  • Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 18 inches per year as a result of draining the water table for human consumption.
  • Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in our solar system.
  • All the moons of the Solar System are named after Greek and Roman mythology, except the moons of Uranus, which are named after Shakesperean charcters.
  • More than 20 million meteroids enter Earth’s atmosphere every day. Most are no bigger than a speck of dust.
  • The largest painting on earth is a 72437 square foot smiley face.
  • The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
  • Gold is the only metal that doesn’t rust, even if it’s buried in the ground for thousands of years.
  • The winds on Saturn blow at 1,200 mph. 10 times faster than a strong Earth hurricane.
  • The average iceberg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
  • A diamond is the hardest natural substance.
  • Earth’s oceans contain 7 1/2 million tons of gold, dissolved in the water.