The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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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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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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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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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