Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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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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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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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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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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