Random Space Facts

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    Sheikh Hamad Had His Name Carved into Island
    Sheikh Hamad, billionaire and royal family member in the United Arab Emirates, had a huge carving of his name that's even visible from space etched into a private island.
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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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    Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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    NASA invented baby food as we know it today.
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    There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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    Anti-Comet Pills
    Anti-Comet Pills
    In 1910, as Earth passed through the tail of Halley's Comet, people bought "Anti-Comet Pills", special "comet umbrellas", and gas masks, because there was public hysteria that all life on Earth would be destroyed by gas - called cyanogen - that was detected in the tail.
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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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    Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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