A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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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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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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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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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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