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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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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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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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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