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    Gene Cernan
    Gene Cernan
    Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, wrote his daughter's initials there. They’ll last at least 50,000 years.
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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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    Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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    1054 AD Supernova
    1054 AD Supernova
    In the year 1054 AD, there was an explosion in the sky so bright that it was visible for 23 days straight, even during the day.
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    All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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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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    It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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    An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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