Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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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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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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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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