The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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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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