Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wants to spend $500 billion creating a new city in a Saudi Arabian desert wasteland called “Neom.” His plans include having an artificial moon, glow-in-the-dark sand, flying taxis, dinosaur robots, robot maids, and more! – WTF Fun Facts
Source: A Prince’s $500 Billion Desert Dream: Flying Cars, Robot Dinosaurs and a Giant Artificial Moon – WSJ
If you could fold a piece of paper 42 times, it would be thick enough to reach the moon. A standard sheet of paper is ~0.1 mm so 42 folds would be 0.1*(2^(42)) = 439,804,651,110 mm or over 273,000 miles. – WTF Fun Facts
Source:Will A Piece Of Paper, Folded 42 Times, Reach The Moon? (codersrevolution.com)
British company Spacebit plans to send a spider robot to the moon in 2021. They will eventually send multiple spiders to map the existing lava tubes using LIDAR to help make plans to build lunar bases for permanent human colonies. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/we-are-sending-spider-robots-to-the-moon-in-2021
Researchers from the University of Washington found that when the moon is directly overhead, it’s gravitational pull on the clouds results in less rain. – WTF Fun Facts
If you were on the moon, the Earth wouldn’t actually move in the sky. It would appear to wobble a little because the moon is elliptical but it would never “rise” or “set”. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.livescience.com/65831-earth-phases-from-moon.html
The USSR successfully sent a spacecraft and entry probe to Venus in 1966 becoming the first space probe to hit the surface of another planet – three years before the US put man on the moon. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_3
Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt is allergic to moon dust.
Source: https://www.wired.com/2005/04/what-a-little-moon-dust-can-do/
The last day to see a blue moon until 2020 – WTF fun facts
