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    Fast Facts: Jan. 22

    A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.

    Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters Earth’s atmosphere each second.

    Astronauts cannot burp in space.

    Astronauts get taller when they are in space.

    If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there is no air pressure.

    Only 55 percent of Americans know that the sun is a star.

    The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.

    The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.

    There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.

    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

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