Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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