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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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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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 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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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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