Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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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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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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