Dumb Facts » Earth and Space

• 5,865,696,000,000 – The amount of miles in a light year.
• 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.
• The energy given off by a hurricane in one day would power the entire U.S for three years.
• The sun is 93,000,000 miles from the earth.
• There is enough energy in one bolt of lightning to power a home for two weeks.
• 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.