One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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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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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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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