ASTRONAUGHTY

Astronauts grow taller in space because gravity stopped compressing their ego.

✗ FAKE
Astronauts can grow slightly taller in space, by a few centimeters, because the spine lengthens without gravity compressing it. The effect is real and reverses on return, but it has nothing to do with ego.

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