Sound doesn't travel in space.
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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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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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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 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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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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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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