The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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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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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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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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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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