These fascinating science facts prove that reality is often stranger—and a lot more interesting—than fiction These ...

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How far it is from the sun: 886 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers), on average How big it is: 72,400 miles (116,500 km) across, or almost 10 times the size of Earth. How many moons it has: At ...

No direct measurements have been made of the winds in the eye of a tornado because the instruments that measure wind can't survive long enough. It is thought that winds in the most violent tornadoes ...