Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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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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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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