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- A typical flash of folk lightning lasts for about 0.2 seconds
- At any particular time, there are approximately 1,800 thunderstorms occurring in the Earth's atmosphere
- The tiny droplets of water that make up fog are so small that it would take seven thousand million of them to make a single tablespoonful of water
- The fogs, which are more common in winter, occasionally cause havoc with air travel by lingering into the early afternoon
- In Australia, Canberra wins the title of the 'foggiest' capital city with an average of 47 fogs each year
- Sea fogs persist for more than 120 days a year on the Grand Banks, Newfoundland, Canada
- Uranus' axis is at 97 degrees. which means that it orbits on its side. (Most of the planets spin on an axis nearly perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic but Uranus' axis is almost parallel to the ecliptic
- Mercury is the only planet whose orbit is coplanar with its equator. Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate opposite to the direction of their orbit
- Jupiter has the shortest day of all the planets. Although it has a circumference of 280,000 miles compared with Earth's 25,000 Jupiter manages to make one turn in 9 hours and 55 minutes
- If you are having problems remembering the planets in their correct order, just remember this sentence "My very educated mother jested served us nine pickles," Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
- According to scientists, Gold exists on Mars, Mercury, and Venus
