The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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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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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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