If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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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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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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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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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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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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