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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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    The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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    Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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    The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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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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    Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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