Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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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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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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