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Word riddles: xkcd edition

The following hints are the content headers from Randall Munroe's Thing Explainer, which explains how a bunch of things work using only the 1000 ("ten hundred") most common English words, which make for some interesting word riddles. Guess what header is referring to.
eg. "Page before the book starts" refers to the introduction
I referred to the book itself, but the table of contents can be found here
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Title
Refers to
Shared space house
International Space Station
Tin bags of water you're made of
Animal cell
Heavy metal power building
Nuclear reactor
Red world space car
Curiosity Rover
Bags of stuff inside you
Human torso
Boxes that make clothes smell better
Washing machine and dryer
Earth's surface
Physical map of the Earth
Under a car's front cover
Car engine
Sky boats with turning wings
Helicopter
The US's laws of the land
US Constitution
The USS Laws of the Land
USS Constitution
Food-heating radio box
Microwave
Shape checker
Padlock
Lifting room
Elevator
Boat that goes under the sea
Submarine
Box that cleans food holders
Dishwasher
Big flat rocks we live on
Tectonic plates
Cloud maps
Weather maps
Tree
Tree
Machine for burning cities
Nuclear bomb
Water room
Toilet and sink
Computer building
Data center
US Space Team's Up Goer Five
Saturn V rocket
Title
Refers to
Sky boat pusher
Jet engine
Stuff you touch to fly a sky boat
Cockpit
Big tiny thing hitter
Large Hadron Collider
Power boxes
Batteries
Hole-making city boat
Oil rig
Stuff in the Earth we can burn
Mines
Tall roads
Bridges
Bending computer
Laptop
Worlds around the Sun
Solar system
Picture taker
Camera
Writing sticks
Pen and pencil
Hand computer
Smart phone
Colors of light
Electromagnetic spectrum
The sky at night
Night sky
The pieces everything is made of
Periodic table
Our star
Sun
How to count things
Units of measurement
Room for helping people
Hospital bed
Playing fields
Athletic fields
Earth's past
Geologic periods of Earth
Tree of life
Life's family tree
Sky toucher
Skyscraper
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