If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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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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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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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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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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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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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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