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Old 09-27-2019, 08:22 PM
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The width of the rings on Saturn are 170,000 miles. Yet the thickness of the rings is only 65 feet!
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Old 09-27-2019, 08:24 PM
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NASA is credited (wrongly) with inventing Velcro, Tang, and Teflon—myths it busts on its own website, although it does point out that these products were all used by NASA programs at one point or another after they were invented. But this invention is indisputable: the Super Soaker water gun, which was created by former NASA systems engineer Lonnie Johnson
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Old 09-27-2019, 08:28 PM
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According to NASA's history site, the various 3'-by-5' nylon flags that were sent to the moon on the Apollo 11 mission were all purchased at a Sears store in Houston, near the Manned Spacecraft Center. Apparently, NASA secretaries had been deployed to make these purchases on their lunch hours.
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Pennsylvania has one of the highest gas tax in the country, at 77.1 cents per gallon.
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Although New Jersey is one of the smaller states, it has 114 hazardous waste sites, more than any other state in the country.
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Old 09-28-2019, 12:39 AM
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Although New Jersey is one of the smaller states, it has 114 hazardous waste sites, more than any other state in the country.

YAY! We are finally #1 in something!
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