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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 temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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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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    A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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    A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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    It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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    There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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    Wow! Signal
    Wow! Signal
    In 1977, researchers detected a strong and unusual radio signal from space that lasted 72 seconds. It hasn't been detected since.
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