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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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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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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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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