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 Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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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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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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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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