Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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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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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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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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