Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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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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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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