Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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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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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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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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The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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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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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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