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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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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