The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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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 is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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