Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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