It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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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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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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