Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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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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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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