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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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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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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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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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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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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