Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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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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    The Mystery of the Black Knight Satellite
    There's a mysterious satellite of unknown origin that's orbiting Earth. Dubbed the Black Knight Satellite, astronomers have been reporting strange radio signals allegedly coming from the satellite since the 1930s - before NASA or the Soviet Union put satellites into space.
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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    The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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    In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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    The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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    A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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    An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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