Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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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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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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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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