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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 moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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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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    Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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    The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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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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    The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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    Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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