Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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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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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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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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