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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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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