If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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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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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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When a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents reportedly called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.
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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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