The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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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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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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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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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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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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