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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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    Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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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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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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    An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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    If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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    The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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    The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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