Sound doesn't travel in space.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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