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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 is .02 degrees hotter during a full 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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    On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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    Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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    In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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    There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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