Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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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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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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