Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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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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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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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 center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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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