If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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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.
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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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