The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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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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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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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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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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