Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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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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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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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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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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