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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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
31
Sound doesn't travel in space.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
82
The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
178
All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
194
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
127
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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