The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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NASA invented baby food as we know it today.
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MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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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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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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