The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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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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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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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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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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