1) Rain falls at 11-12 km/h.
2) Some large clouds store enough water for 600,000 showers.
3) It is impossible for a solar eclipse to last for more than 7 minutes 58 seconds.
4) Venus is the only planet in the solar system to spin backwards.
5) It takes 8 minutes for sunlight to travel from the sun to the earth.
6) In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
7) Mexico City
8) The magnetic North Pole shifts by about 7 meters a day.
9) A day on the planet Mercury is twice as long as its year.
10) Every year lightning kills 1000 people.
11) In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf .
12) If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.
13) Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.
14) The Earth is 4.56 billion years old...the same age as the Moon and the Sun.
15) The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.
16) Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.
17) When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.
18) If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.
12) If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.
13) Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.
14) The Earth is 4.56 billion years old...the same age as the Moon and the Sun.
15) The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.
16) Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.
17) When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.
18) If our Sun were just inch in diameter, the nearest star would be 445 miles away.
19)The Australian billygoat plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange.
20) Astronauts cannot belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
20) Astronauts cannot belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
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