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 Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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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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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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