The reason our Moon keeps the same face turned towards us is because the time it takes to orbit the Earth is the same time the Moon takes to rotate about its own axis.
The Moon tales about 27 days to revolve once around the Earth, and takes 27 days to turn once on its own axis, so in the time the Moon revolves around the Earth it has turned exactly once on its own axis- this is called synchronous rotation.
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