Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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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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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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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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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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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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