Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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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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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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