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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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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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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