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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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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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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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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In 1859, the largest known geomagnetic storm struck the Caribbean, causing an aurora and telegraphs could even operate without a power source.
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