Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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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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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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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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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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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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