Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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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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