The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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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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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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NASA invented baby food as we know it today.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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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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