The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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