Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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