The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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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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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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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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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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