Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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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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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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