The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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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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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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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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