Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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