It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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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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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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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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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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