The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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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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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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