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    Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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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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    On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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    The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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    Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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    The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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