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    Gene Cernan
    Gene Cernan
    Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, wrote his daughter's initials there. They’ll last at least 50,000 years.
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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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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    If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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    An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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    Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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