Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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Sound doesn't travel in space.
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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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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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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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