Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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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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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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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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