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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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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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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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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