Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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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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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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