It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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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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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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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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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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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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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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