LENGTH, in miles, of the single longest lightning strike ever recorded. It occurred over a swath of the Southern U.S. in 2017 but was just recently discovered by scientists in a reanalysis of data.
Source: The Washington Post
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MINIMUM AGE for voters in the United Kingdom under a proposed law the government announced in July. The change, which appears to have strong support in Parliament, would lower the voting age from 18.
Source: BBC
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$5.3 million
PRICE for a 54-pound Martian meteorite that sold at auction this summer. It was discovered in Niger in 2023 and is the largest known piece of Mars
found on Earth.
Source: Reuters
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