Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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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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