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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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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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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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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