Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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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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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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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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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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