The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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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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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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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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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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