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I bet most of the crowd does not know that there are six moons in the solar system bigger than Pluto.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I'm small but I'm also big. I'm big because I'm connected to the universe and the universe is connected to me.
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