Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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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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