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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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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