The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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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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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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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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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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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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