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This is true on earth. If you have objects of the same shape and different weights and you drop them from high enough to reach terminal velocity, the heavier one will have a high terminal velocity through air and reach the ground faster.
The "in a vacuum" thing is where this goes wrong, but I don't think homeboy really knew about space or vacuums.
Not really always, because of buoyancy. A balloon of volume V displaces the same amount of air weather it's filled with air or lead, but in the former case the force is significant.