The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
145
Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
358
The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
147
In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
31
The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
14
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.
4
If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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