Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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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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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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