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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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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