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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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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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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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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