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    Mark Twain, born on one of the years Halley’s Comet was visible, correctly predicted that he would die the next time it came by again.



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    August 06, 2009, 11:05am   Comments

    There are mirrors on the moon. Astronauts left them so that laser beams sent from Earth could bounce off of them. These beams help us calculate the distance of the moon.



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    August 05, 2009, 11:03am   Comments

    Photos taken of Mars in 1999 and 2005 show muddy sand, indicating there may have been a flood sometime between those years.



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    June 03, 2009, 11:01am   Comments

    A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.



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    April 05, 2009, 6:28pm   Comments

    Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11’s lunar module landed on the moon.



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    March 10, 2009, 8:00am   Comments

    There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.

    Yes, exactly how you read it.



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    February 26, 2009, 8:01pm   Comments

    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.



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    February 25, 2009, 11:01am   Comments