Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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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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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to 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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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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