A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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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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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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