SHOOT: Here's one...er...make that two ---
1. There were once forests on the moon.
[I take it you don't like that answer. How about this one...]
2. We never went to the fucking moon. It was a fucking hoax, one of the first and biggest lies we told to ourselves. Our greatest achievement turns out to be a lie about something glorious we said we did, but in fact, didn't do. You can't land a paper thin peice of metal on a radioactive superhot, supercold lunar surface.
Why isn't Neil Armstrong the biggest celebrity, bigger than Michael Jackson?
A treasured piece at the Dutch national museum - a supposed moon rock from the first manned lunar landing - is nothing more than petrified wood, curators say.
It was given to former Prime Minister Willem Drees during a goodwill tour by the three Apollo-11 astronauts shortly after their moon mission in 1969.
When Mr Drees died, the rock went on display at the Amsterdam museum.
At one point it was insured for around $500,000 (£308,000), but tests have proved it was not the genuine article.
The Rijksmuseum, which is perhaps better known for paintings by artists such as Rembrandt, says it will keep the piece as a curiosity.
"We can laugh about it."
The US agency gave moon rocks to more than 100 countries following lunar missions in the 1970s.
US officials said they had no explanation for the Dutch discovery.
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