The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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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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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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