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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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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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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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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