Lightning

»   Lightning puts 10 million tons of nitrogen into the Earth each year.

»   Lightning strikes the Earth 1,800 times at any moment.

»   Lightning strikes the earth somewhere more than 17 million times every day, or about 200 times every second.

»   The EPA says that gas-powered lawn mowers contribute to 7 percent of the ozone pollution in the United States.

»   The Eternal God is a redwood tree in California that is believed to be 12,000 years old. That makes the tree four times older than the great pyramids in Egypt. Located in the Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, the Eternal is 238 feet tall and 19.6 feet in diameter.

»   The fastest jet stream seen was found to be traveling at a speed of 408 miles per hour at height of 154,200 feet above South Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.

»   Lightning travels 90,000 miles a second – almost half the speed of light.

»   The fastest temperature change on record is a rise of 49° F in two minutes, from -4° to 45° F. This occurred in Spearfish, South Dakota, January 1943, between 7:30 and 7:32 a.m.