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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 heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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    A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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    An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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    The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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    In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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