More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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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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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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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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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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