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    Gene Cernan
    Gene Cernan
    Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, wrote his daughter's initials there. They’ll last at least 50,000 years.
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    The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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    A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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    The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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    The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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    If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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    Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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