The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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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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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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