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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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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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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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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