An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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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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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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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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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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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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