Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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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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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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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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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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