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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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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