It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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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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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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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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