The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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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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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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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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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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