The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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