Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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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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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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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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